Key result
Multimorbidity treatment burden links socio-financial impacts of healthcare tasks to non-adherence and disease progression.
Why the study?
Treatment burden among people living with multimorbidity had not been thoroughly explored, limiting understanding of its components, contributing factors, health outcomes, and measurement instruments.
Design
Integrative review
Authors
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Clinicians should assess treatment burden in multimorbidity to reduce non-adherence and improve quality of life; extends evidence by mapping components and exposing measurement tool gaps.
Systematic Review (n=30)
This integrative review maps the components and impacts of treatment burden in multimorbidity, highlighting a gap in current measurement tools regarding the ongoing prioritization of healthcare tasks.
Lee et al. (2024) conducted a systematic review in Multimorbidity (n=30). Treatment burden in multimorbidity consists of four healthcare tasks and their social, emotional, and financial impacts, which can lead to non-adherence, disease progression, and poor quality of life.
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