Patients, general practitioners, diseases and health problems in urban general practice: A cross-sectional study on electronic patient records

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-125

  Nilsson, Gunnar H ^a   Månsson, Jörgen ^b   Åhlfeldt, Hans ^c   Gunnarsson, Ronny ^d   Strender, Lars Erik ^a  

^a Center for Family and Community Medicine   (Sweden)

^b Primary Health Care Centre Husläkarna I Kungsbacka   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

health problems; patient gender; physician gender; primary care

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011457590     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423608000649     Document Type: Article

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