Multimorbidity in a marginalised, street-health Australian population: a retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: Demographic and presentation profile of patients using an innovative mobile outreach clinic compared with mainstream practice.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Primary care mobile street health clinic and mainstream practice in Western Australia.

Multimorbidity in patients attending 2 Australian primary care practices.

Purpose: Multiple chronic conditions in a single patient can be a challenging health burden. We aimed to examine patterns and prevalence of multimorbidity among patients attending 2 large Australian primary care practices and to estimate disease severity burden using the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS).

Methods: Using published CIRS guidelines and a disease severity index calculated for each individual, we extracted data from the medical records of all 7,247 patients (58.

Retirement intentions of general practitioners aged 45-65 years.

Objective: To ascertain the retirement intentions of a cohort of Australian general practitioners.

Design And Setting: Postal questionnaire survey of members of four Divisions of General Practice in Western Australia, sent out November 2007 - January 2008.

Participants: A sample of 178 GPs aged 45-65 years.