Contacts with out-of-hours primary care for nonurgent problems: Patients' beliefs or deficiencies in healthcare? Knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, education, and communication

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Keizer, Ellen ^a   Smits, Marleen ^a   Peters, Yvonne ^a   Huibers, Linda ^a,b   Giesen, Paul ^a   Wensing, Michel ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

After hours care; Medical necessity; Motivation; Nonurgent; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; OUT-OF-HOURS CARE; PATIENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; PATIENTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946044785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-015-0376-9     Document Type: Article

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