Home visit delegation in primary care: Acceptability to general practitioners in the state of mecklenburg-western Pomerania, Germany;Delegierung von Hausbesuchstätigkeiten an Medizinische Fachangestellte: Akzeptanz unter den Hausärzten Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns

Deutsches Arzteblatt International

Volumn 109, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 795-801

  Dini, Lorena ^a   Sarganas, Giselle ^a   Heintze, Christoph ^a   Braun, Vittoria ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTRACT; EMPLOYMENT; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; WORK; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GERMANY; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899774814     PISSN: 18660452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2012.0795     Document Type: Review

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