How this fits in

Current disease management programmes usually focus on one illness and are, therefore, less suited to persons with multimorbidity, for whom more person-centred, comprehensive chronic care is recommended. Given the time constraints and limited resources in general practice, it is essential to prioritise those most in need of an assessment of person-centred chronic-care needs. This study presents an algorithm that uses electronic medical record data predicting anticipated benefit, as judged by GPs, which performs reasonably well in prioritising patients with multimorbidity. This algorithm may help GPs to target comprehensive care efforts by facilitating automated prioritisation, potentially avoiding the need for them to personally triage the whole practice population.