An international comparative family medicine study of the transition project data from the Netherlands, Malta and Serbia. Is family medicine an international discipline? Comparing diagnostic odds ratios across populations

Family Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-314

  Soler, Jean K ^a,b   Okkes, Inge ^b,c   Oskam, Sibo ^c   van Boven, Kees ^d   Zivotic, Predrag ^e   Jevtic, Milan ^f   Dobbs, Frank ^a,b   Lamberts, Henk ^b,c   van Boven, C ^g   Dijksterhuis, P H ^g   Groen, A ^g   de Haan, J ^g   Groot, A M Honselaar De ^g   Janssen, D ^g   Polman, T A L ^g   Polderman, G O ^g   Stolp, K E I ^g   Valken, N ^g   Veltman, M T M ^g   Woerdeman, M ^g   Calleja, Francis Paul ^g   Sammut, Carmen ^g   Sammut, Mario R ^g   Sammut, Daniel ^g   Sammut, David ^g   Bonnici, Jason ^g   Buhagiar, John ^g   Baldacchino, Andrew ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Mediterranean Institute of Primary Care   (Malta)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e BONEX inzenjering   (Serbia)

^f Saga System Integration   (Serbia)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Electronic medical records; Electronic patient records; Episode of care; Family medicine; General practice; Icpc; International; International Classification of Primary Care; Malta; Person centred care; Posterior probability; Prior probability; Reason for encounter; Serbia; The Netherlands; Transition project

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUGHING; CYSTITIS; DERMATOPHYTOSIS; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DUODENUM ULCER; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; ECZEMA; ERYTHEMA; FAMILY MEDICINE; FATIGUE; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HYPERTENSION; INFLUENZA; INSOMNIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALTA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NETHERLANDS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOSE CONGESTION; OTALGIA; PRURITUS; RASH; SERBIA; SINUSITIS; SNEEZING; STOMACH FUNCTION DISORDER; SWELLING; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TONSILLITIS; TRACHEITIS; URINARY FREQUENCY; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

BAYES THEOREM; DIAGNOSIS; EPISODE OF CARE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALTA; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SERBIA;

EID: 84861778874     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmr099     Document Type: Article

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