Priority setting in general practice: Health priorities of older patients differ from treatment priorities of their physicians

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 483-492

  Voigt, Isabel ^a   Wrede, Jennifer ^a   Diederichs Egidi, Heike ^a   Dierks, Marie Luise ^a   Junius Walker, Ulrike ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; GERMANY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; STANDARDIZED ASSESSMENT FOR ELDERLY PATIENTS IN PRIMARY CARE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 78650600376     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2010.51.483     Document Type: Article

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