The accuracy of general practitioner workforce projections

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Van Greuningen, Malou ^a   Batenburg, Ronald S ^a,b   Van der Velden, Lud F J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Evaluation; Health workforce; Projections

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION STUDY; FORECASTING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRENDS; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

FORECASTING; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880116596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-11-31     Document Type: Article

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