Population
904 multimorbid adults aged 65 years or older from primary care clinics
Design
Cross-sectional
Follow-up
6 and/or 18 months (for longitudinal subset)
Authors
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HCTD links higher treatment burden to worse health in multimorbid older adults; supports scale validity but leaves open whether reducing burden improves outcomes.
The Healthcare Task Difficulty (HCTD) scale is a valid tool for measuring treatment burden and its impact on health outcomes in older adults with multimorbidity.
Boyd et al. (2014) studied this question.
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