A comprehensive women's health care center: Are gynecologists offering primary care?

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1660-1666

  Lentz, Gretchen M ^a   Ayala, Leticia ^a   Eckert, Linda O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehensive women's health care; Internal medicine; Primary care; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PATIENT CODING; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33646811167     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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