Doctors, practices, patients, and their problems during usual hours: A description of rural and non-rural primary care in New Zealand in 2001-2002

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1253, 2007, Pages

  Hider, Phil ^a   Lay Lee, Roy ^b   Davis, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAORI; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MORBIDITY; NEW ZEALAND; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; MALE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 34249683941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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