Using administrative data to measure the extent to which practitioners work together: "interconnected" care is common in a large cohort of family physicians

Open Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 177-182

  Manuel, Douglas G ^a,b   Lam, Kelvin ^c   Maaten, Sarah ^c   Klein Geltink, Julie ^c  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COOPERATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COHORT STUDIES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ONTARIO; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 80055058490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19112092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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