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The presence of multiple diseases or disorders.
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The state of having more than one disease, “diagnosis,” or “disorder” at the same time; for example, the same person might have “depression” and “panic attacks” during the same period.
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the state of having two or more disorders at one time A-C, D-M, M-R, S-Z
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Presence of a second disease or condition influencing the care or treatment of a patient, and in the hospital setting is expected to increase the length of stay by at least one day for most patients.
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Two or more diseases or conditions existing together in an individual.
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See co-existing disorders.
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The simultaneous existence of two or more disorders in the same person
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The presence of coexisting or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis. Comorbidity may affect the ability of affected individuals to function and also their survival; it may be used as a prognostic indicator for length of hospital stay, cost factors, and outcome or survival.
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Coexistence of a disease or diseases in a study participant in addition to the index condition that is the subject of study. ( Harm)
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The presence of two or more disorders at the same time. For example, a person with depression may also have co-morbid obsessive compulsive disorder.
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Any disease that is associated with, or a result of, another disease. Co-morbidities of obesity include diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. For a more complete listing, click here.
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Relative incidence of disease(s).
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the presence of several diseases/conditions.
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Two or more diseases or conditions occurring at the same time, such as anxiety disorder and depression.
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A person diagnosed as having an alcohol or drug abuse problem in addition to some other diagnosis, usually psychiatric, for example, mood disorder and schizophrenia. Can also refer to a person with chronic physical and mental health problem. Making a different diagnosis is often complicated by overlapping signs and symptoms ofdependence and diagnostic entities, eg anxiety is a prominent feature of drug withdrawal. A further complication is with shared or reciprocal causal processes, eg a mild disorder of mood leads to some drug use which eventually leads to an exacerbation of the mood disturbance to further drug use, dependence and severe mood disturbance.
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