Excess of health care use in general practice and of comorbid chronic conditions in cancer patients compared to controls

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jabaaij, Lea ^a   Van Den Akker, Marjan ^b,c   Schellevis, François G ^a,d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer; Comorbidity; Follow up; General practitioner; Neoplasms; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT REFERRAL; SEX RATIO; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROL GROUPS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84862290933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-13-60     Document Type: Article

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