Multimorbidity, clinical decision making and health care delivery in New Zealand Primary care: a qualitative study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Stokes, Tim ^a   Tumilty, Emma ^a   Doolan Noble, Fiona ^a   Gauld, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Decision making; General practice; Health services; Multimorbidity; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CHRONIC CONDITIONS; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMORBIDITY; NEW ZEALAND; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 85017006004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-017-0622-4     Document Type: Article

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