Threads and Yarns: Weaving the Tapestry of Comorbidity

著者: Bárbara Starfield - The Annals of Family Medicine 2006 被引用: 197

As any weaver knows, the elegance of a fabric lies in the yarns, not the threads. The whole is lots more than the sum of its parts. In health services, the threads are the diagnoses on which interventions are based. How these threads are spun into yarn (the underlying biodynamic of the tapestry of