Referrals from primary to secondary care;Überweisungen vom hausarzt zum facharzt: Naht- oder bruchstelle?

Deutsches Arzteblatt

Volumn 103, Issue 37, 2006, Pages

  Rosemann, Thomas ^a   Rüter, Gernot ^b   Wensing, Michel ^a,c   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Chirotherapie Henningen ^*

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health care; Primary care physician; Referral; Specialist

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RURAL AREA;

EID: 33750089763     PISSN: 00121207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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