Ambulatory health services utilization in patients with dementia - Is there an urban-rural difference?

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Koller, Daniela ^a   Eisele, Marion ^b   Kaduszkiewicz, Hanna ^b   Schön, Gerhard ^b   Steinmann, Susanne ^c   Wiese, Birgitt ^c   Glaeske, Gerd ^a   van den Bussche, Hendrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NEUROLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRY; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 78349296449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-59     Document Type: Article

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