General practitioners' contribution to the management of community-acquired pneumonia in the Netherlands: A retrospective analysis of primary care, hospital, and national mortality databases with individual data linkage

Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 400-405

  Snijders, Bianca E P ^a   van der Hoek, Wim ^a   Stirbu, Irina ^b   van der Sande, Marianne A B ^a,c   van Gageldonk Lafeber, Arianne B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Episodes; General practice; Hospitalisation; Mortality; Retrospective study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LEGAL DATABASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888642643     PISSN: 14714418     EISSN: 14751534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4104/pcrj.2013.00085     Document Type: Article

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