Freight trains and supernovas: The use of a sorting task to determine patterns within long-term frequent attendance to general practitioners

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-50

  Neal, Richard D ^a   Heywood, Philip L ^a   Morley, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

attendance patterns; cluster analysis; frequent attendance; general practice; sorting task

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008417447     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/146342300667725626     Document Type: Article

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