OBJECTIVES: The goal was to describe the use of the medical emergency department as a
source of non-urgent medical care in order to assess unmet health care needs among its …

Objectives: to evaluate the proportion of the patients who report the emergency department
as their regular source of care and to describe the demographics and health status of this …

Abstract Background: France and the Netherlands are often presented as two contrasting
countries with regard to drug prescriptions and consumption. This study aimed to analyse …

Background: Primary health care is one of the most important pillars of the Tunisian health
care system. However, very little information is available regarding the specificities of …

Coding of medical data according to a suitable classification is useful to epidemiological
research in primary care but its implementation at practice-based level may be considered …

The French health care system today has to answer to requirements for quality of care
(accreditation, risk management, patients' satisfaction) and cost reduction. The need to …

Although the coding of medical data is expected to benefit both patients and the health care
system, its implementation as a manual process often represents a poorly attractive …

Objectives. The aim of this study was to analyse the reasons for encounter of teenagers in
family practice and to compare them with the reasons recorded by their family practitioner …

La santé primaire constitue une pierre angulaire dans le système de soins tunisien,
cependant nous ne disposons pas d'une information suffisante sur les caractéristiques de la …

Die ICPC ist als Leistung einer multinationalen Arbeitsgruppe der WONCA in englischer
Sprache entstanden. Dieses System der Klassifizierung hilft, Gesundheitsprobleme aus …