Types of morbidity and categories of patients in a Swedish county: Applying the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups System to encounter data in primary health care

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 174-179

  Carlsson, Lennart ^a,b   Strender, Lars Erik ^a   Fridh, Gerd ^c   Nilsson, Gunnar ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

^c Blekinge County Council   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ACG (Adjusted Clinical Groups); Comorbidity; Patient classification; Primary care; Type of morbidity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENTS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 4644333597     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02813430410006567     Document Type: Article

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