Table 1.

Conditions with consensus to always or usually be included in the MLTC measure, based on Delphi survey (16)

Body system (based on ICD-10 chapters)	Always include, N = 24	Usually include (unless there is a good reason not to in a particular context), N = 35*
Cardiovascular disease	Stroke, coronary artery disease, heart failure, peripheral artery disease	Heart valve disorders, arrhythmia, venous thromboembolic disease, aneurysm, hypertension (treated and untreated)
Metabolic and endocrine disease	Diabetes, Addison disease, cystic fibrosis	Thyroid disorders
Respiratory disease	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma	Bronchiectasis
Neurological disease	Parkinson disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, paralysis	Transient ischemic attack, peripheral neuropathy, chronic primary pain
Cancer	Solid organ cancers, hematological cancers, metastatic cancers	Melanoma, benign cerebral tumors that can cause disability
Mental and behavioral disorder	Dementia, schizophrenia	Depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, drug or alcohol misuse, eating disorder, autism, Posttraumatic stress disorder
Musculoskeletal disease	Connective tissue disease	Osteoarthritis, long-term musculoskeletal problems due to injury, osteoporosis, gout
Digestive disease	Chronic liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease	Chronic pancreatic disease, peptic ulcer
Urogenital disorder	CKD, end-stage kidney disease	Endometriosis, chronic urinary tract infection
Hematological disorder		Anemia (including pernicious anemia, sickle cell anemia)
Eye disease		Vision impairment that cannot be corrected
Ear disease		Hearing impairment that cannot be corrected, Meniere disease
Infectious disease	HIV/AIDS	Chronic Lyme disease, TB, post–acute COVID-19
Congenital disease		Congenital disease and chromosomal abnormalities

^*Untreated and treated hypertension were combined. Both sets of panelists agreed to include conditions that require surveillance (including cancers), and thus “cancers that require surveillance” was not stated separately in the list.