Various socioeconomic, demographic and sanitary circumstances have consolidated the phenomenon known as epidemiological transition. This explains the increasing prevalence of concurrence of several chronic processes in a same person, a factor known as comorbidity or multimorbidity. These patients use a great amount of resources, and their characteristics lead to numerous difficulties in their clinical management because of which they tend to be considered fragile or complex patients. As a result, they represent a clear challenge for healthcare services. Specific strategies to prevent chronicity have consequently been implemented at both a ministerial and autonomic level.
This scenario gives rise to the need to conduct specific research with this type of patients based on the different parameters that affect them. Our research group is consequently multiprofessional and comprised by all professionals involved in some way in the medical care of this group of patients (family doctors, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, IT specialists, etc.).
