#	Searches	Results
1	Continuity of Patient Care/use mesz	12501
2	“Referral and Consultation”/use mesz	46299
3	(((continuity or continuum) adj 5 (care or health care or healthcare or in-patient? or inpatient? or patient? or physician? or provider? or out-patient? or outpatient? or visit?)) or continuity-of-care or continuous care or continuous health care or continuous healthcare).ti,ab.	16244
4	((patient-physician relation* or physician-patient relation* or patient relation?) and (continuous* or length or time)).mp.	15553
5	*Patient Care/use emez	35993
6	*Patient Referral/use emez	11041
7	or/1-6	130862
8	exp Coronary Artery Disease/	210163
9	exp Myocardial Infarction/use mesz	136258
10	exp heart infarction/use emez	213996
11	(coronary artery disease or cad or heart attack).ti.	44510
12	((myocardi* or heart or cardiac or coronary) adj2 (atheroscleros* or arterioscleros* or infarct*)).ti.	150312
13	or/8-12	538832
14	exp Atrial Fibrillation/use mesz	28533
15	exp heart atrium fibrillation/use emez	53857
16	((atrial or atrium or auricular) adj1 fibrillation*).ti,ab.	72761
17	or/14-16	98450
18	exp heart failure/	299162
19	((myocardi* or heart or cardiac) adj2 (failure or decompensation or insufficiency)).ti,ab.	236085
20	18 or 19	381647
21	exp Stroke/	177440
22	exp Ischemic Attack, Transient/use mesz	16615
23	exp transient ischemic attack/use emez	19389
24	exp stroke patient/use emez	5349
25	exp brain infarction/or exp cerebrovascular accident/use emez	101283
26	(stroke or tia or transient ischemic attack or cerebrovascular apoplexy or cerebrovascular accident or cerebrovascular infarct* or brain infarct* or CVA).ti,ab.	280877
27	or/21-26	391325
28	exp Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/use mesz	70333
29	exp non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus/use emez	100079
30	exp diabetic patient/use emez	11998
31	(diabetes or diabetic* or niddm or t2dm).ti,ab.	767609
32	or/28-31	792582
33	exp Skin Ulcer/	72332
34	((pressure or bed or skin) adj2 (ulcer* or sore* or wound*)).ti,ab.	29008
35	(decubitus or bedsore*).ti,ab.	8583
36	or/33-35	91251
37	exp Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/use mesz	17237
38	exp chronic obstructive lung disease/use emez	53936
39	(chronic obstructive adj2 (lung* or pulmonary or airway* or airflow or respiratory) adj (disease* or disorder*)).ti,ab.	54470
40	(copd or coad).ti,ab.	45341
41	chronic airflow obstruction.ti,ab.	1067
42	exp Emphysema/	37319
43	exp chronic bronchitis/use emez	6930
44	((chronic adj2 bronchitis) or emphysema).ti,ab.	51113
45	or/37-44	159066
46	exp Chronic Disease/	344492
47	(chronic*adj2 disease* or (chronic* adj2 ill*)).ti,ab.	32477
48	46 or 47	363168
49	Comorbidity/	143490
50	(comorbid* or co-morbid* or multimorbid* or multi-morbid* or (complex* adj patient*) or (multiple adj2 (condition* or disease* or patient*))).ti,ab.	228158
51	49 or 50	309127
52	13 or 17 or 20 or 27 or 32 or 36 or 45 or 48 or 51	2739149
53	7 and 52	13143
54	limit 53 to yr="2002 - 2012"	8443
55	limit 54 to english language	7414
56	Case Reports/or Comment.pt. or Editorial.pt. or Letter.pt. use mesz	2943299
57	Case Report/or Editorial/or Letter/or Conference Abstract.pt. use emez	5773844
58	55 not (56 or 57)	6462
59	remove duplicates from 58 [Sets larger than 6000 cannot be de-duped]	6462