Screening primary-care patients forgoing health care for economic reasons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Bodenmann, Patrick ^a   Favrat, Bernard ^a   Wolff, Hans ^b   Guessous, Idris ^b,c   Panese, Francesco ^a   Herzig, Lilli ^a   Bischoff, Thomas ^a   Casillas, Alejandra ^a   Golano, Thomas ^a   Vaucher, Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWITZERLAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899435553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094006     Document Type: Article

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