Preschool children as frequent attenders in primary health care in Croatia: Retrospective study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 852-859

  Stojanović Špehar, Stanislava ^a,c   Blažeković Milaković, Sanja ^a   Bergman Marković, Biserka ^a   Matijašević, Ivana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Health Centre Zagreb Zapad   (Croatia)

^c Voltino Health Care Station   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROATIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; OTALGIA; PARASITOSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; INFANT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROATIA; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; OFFICE VISITS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 38449092424     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2007.6.852     Document Type: Article

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