Primary care and pattern of skin diseases in a mediterranean island

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K ^a   Krasagakis, Konstantin ^b   Komninos, Ioannis D ^a   Kastrinakis, Ioannis ^a   Lyronis, Ioannis ^a   Philalithis, Anastasios ^a   Tosca, Androniki D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INSECT BITE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRURITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TUMOR; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URTICARIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATOLOGY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SKIN DISEASES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33645015902     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-6     Document Type: Article

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