The coming of age of ICPC: Celebrating the 21st birthday of the International Classification of Primary Care

Family Practice

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 312-317

  Soler, Jean Karl ^a,d   Okkes, Inge ^b   Wood, Maurice ^c   Lamberts, Henk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (Malta)

Author keywords

Episode of care; ICPC; Prior and posterior probabilities; Reason for encounter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; GENERAL PRACTICE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF PRIMARY CARE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RELIABILITY; SYMPTOM; VALIDITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EPISODE OF CARE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 49949088057     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmn028     Document Type: Article

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