Association between general practice characteristics and use of out-of-hours GP cooperatives

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Smits, Marleen ^a   Peters, Yvonne ^a   Broers, Sanne ^a   Keizer, Ellen ^a   Wensing, Michel ^a   Giesen, Paul ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

After Hours Care; Emergency Medical Services; Health Services Accessibility; Primary Health Care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MANAGEMENT; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUT-OF-HOURS CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84929430376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-015-0266-1     Document Type: Article

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