Appendix 1Rapid review of the literature

For this policy brief we used data from various sources. First, we included European, national and regional policy and strategy documents directed at multimorbidity care, integrated care, and/or patient-centred care, provided by the participating country expert organizations and/or identified via the websites of the European Commission, WHO and Institute of Medicine. Second, we searched for relevant scientific publications via the online search engine PubMed. The search strategies that were used are presented in Table A. We repeated these strategies using the UK English spelling (patient-centred care, patient-centred approach) and included two additional review papers. Finally, publications identified from the reference lists of the studies found on PubMed were also included.