Are patients who use a generalist physician healthier than those who seek specialty care directly?

Family Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 719-726

  Xakellis, George C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSUMER; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; REVIEW; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 27744514525     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: 07423225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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