Primary care physician insights into a typology of the complex patient in primary care

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 451-455

  Loeb, Danielle F ^a   Binswanger, Ingrid A ^a,b   Candrian, Carey ^a   Bayliss, Elizabeth A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic care; Comorbidity multimorbidity; Key informant depth interviewing; Mental health; Practice based research; Primary care issues; Qualitative methods; Social factors in health and health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84941369075     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1840     Document Type: Article

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