Characteristics and trends in required home care by GPs in Austria: Diseases and functional status of patients

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kamenski, Gustav ^a   Fink, Waltraud ^a   Maier, Manfred ^a   Pichler, Ingrid ^a   Zehetmayer, Sonja ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MARASMUS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; GENERAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUSTRIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33749584964     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-55     Document Type: Article

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