Cargando…
Does an increase in visits to general practice indicate a malignancy?
BACKGROUND: An increase in a patient’s visits to doctors usually raises concerns and may be a ‘red flag’ for a patient’s deterioration of health. The aim of this study was to analyze whether an increase of patient-physician contacts is a first sign of a malignancy in a patient’s near future. METHODS...
Autores principales: | Hauswaldt, Johannes, Hummers-Pradier, Eva, Himmel, Wolfgang |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2016
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4960682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27456975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-016-0477-0 |
Ejemplares similares
-
The inter-contact interval: a new measure to define frequent attenders in primary care
por: Hauswaldt, Johannes, et al.
Publicado: (2013) -
Different definitions of multimorbidity and their effect on prevalence rates: a retrospective study in German general practices
por: Hauswaldt, Johannes, et al.
Publicado: (2022) -
Understanding and reducing the prescription of hypnotics and sedatives at the interface of hospital care and general practice: a protocol for a mixed-methods study
por: Heinemann, Stephanie, et al.
Publicado: (2016) -
Predicting antibiotic prescription after symptomatic treatment for urinary tract infection: development of a model using data from an RCT in general practice
por: Gágyor, Ildikó, et al.
Publicado: (2016) -
High prevalence of prescription of psychotropic drugs for older patients in a general hospital
por: Arnold, Inken, et al.
Publicado: (2017)