General practitioners' home visit tendency and readmission-free survival after COPD hospitalisation: A Danish nationwide cohort study

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lykkegaard, Jesper ^a   Larsen, Pia V ^a   Paulsen, Maja S ^a   Søndergaard, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DANISH CITIZEN; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; DENMARK; GENERAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84928052059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20551010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npjpcrm.2014.100     Document Type: Article

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