Unlimited access to health care - Impact of psychosomatic co-morbidity on utilisation in German general practices

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schneider, Antonius ^a   Hörlein, Elisabeth ^a   Wartner, Eva ^a   Schumann, Isabelle ^a   Henningsen, Peter ^a   Linde, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OFFICE VISITS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 79958861498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-51     Document Type: Article

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