Family medicine in post-communist Europe needs a boost. Exploring the position of family medicine in healthcare systems of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Oleszczyk, Marek ^a   Švab, Igor ^b   Seifert, Bohumil ^c   Krzto Králewiecka, Anna ^a   Windak, Adam ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; EASTERN EUROPE; EDUCATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIAL CONTROL; SPECIALIZATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; WORKLOAD;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; EUROPE, EASTERN; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RUSSIA; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SPECIALIZATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84857968470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-13-15     Document Type: Article

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