Do practice characteristics explain differences in morbidity estimates between electronic health record based general practice registration networks?

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Van Den Dungen, C ^a   Hoeymans, N ^b   Van Den Akker, M ^c,d   Biermans, M C J ^e   Van Boven, K ^e,f   Joosten, J H K ^g   Verheij, R A ^h   De Waal, M W M ⁱ   Schellevis, F G ^g,i   Van Oers, J A M ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f General Practitioner   (Netherlands)

^g VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

ⁱ LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electronic medical records; Family practice; Incidence; Population health; Practice characteristics; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84920757099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-014-0176-7     Document Type: Article

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