Primary care physicians' experiences with case finding for practice-based care management

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Freund, Tobias ^a   Wensing, Michel ^a,b   Geissler, Stefan ^a   Peters Klimm, Frank ^a   Mahler, Cornelia ^a   Boyd, Cynthia M ^c   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WORK EXPERIENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84860767843     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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