General practitioners' workload associated to practice size rather than chronic care organisation

Health Policy

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 124-129

  Wensing, Michel ^a   Van den Hombergh, Pieter ^a   Van Doremalen, Jan ^a   Grol, Richard ^a   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic care; Disease management; Health policy; Physician workload; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKLOAD;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EUROPE; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 57149115148     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.05.008     Document Type: Article

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