Seasonal variation in diagnoses and visits to family physicians

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 411-417

  Pace, Wilson D ^a,b   Dickinson, L Miriam ^a   Staton, Elizabeth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Family practice statistics numerical data; Logistic models; Practice based research network; Seasonal variation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTUMN; BACKACHE; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK PAIN; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OTITIS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUSITIS; SPRING; SUMMER; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WINTER;

ADULT; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OFFICE VISITS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7044249776     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.73     Document Type: Article

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