Chronic care management in Danish general practice - A crosssectional study of workload and multimorbidity

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Moth, Grete ^a   Vestergaard, Mogens ^a   Vedsted, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Multimorbidity; Primary care; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84861912165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-13-52     Document Type: Article

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