The time burden of overweight and obesity in primary care

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tsai, Adam G ^a   Abbo, Elmer D ^b   Ogden, Lorraine G ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; ODDS RATIO; OFFICE VISITS; OVERWEIGHT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051625851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-191     Document Type: Article

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