Demographic and clinical factors associated with physician service use in systemic sclerosis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-98

  Bernatsky, Sasha ^a,k   Panopolis, Pantelis ^b   Hudson, Marie ^a   Pope, Janet ^c   LeClercq, Sharon ^d   Robinson, David ^e   Jones, Niall ^f   Markland, Janet ^g   Abu Hakima, Maysan ^d   Mathieu, Jean Pierre ^h   Docherty, Peter ⁱ   Khalidi, Nader ^j   Sutton, Evelyn ⁱ   Baron, Murray ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

ⁱ DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^k MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Comorbidity; Health resources; Physician use; Scleroderma; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SHORT FORM 36; SKIN DISEASE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

CANADA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIANS; REGISTRIES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 58149517582     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.080623     Document Type: Article

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