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Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care Volume 22, 2004 - Issue 2
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Original Paper

Is frequent attendance a persistent characteristic of a patient?
Repeat studies of attendance pattern at the family practitioner

Sven-Olof Andersson Family Medicine, University Hospital of Northern SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Niels Lynöe Medical Ethics, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
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Carl-Gunnar Hallgren County Council of Västerbotten, Umeå, Sweden
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Mats Nilsson County Council of Västerbotten, Umeå, Sweden
Pages 91-94 | Published online: 12 Jul 2009

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Tuomas-Heikki Koskela, Olli-Pekka Ryynanen & Erkki J. Soini. (2010) Risk factors for persistent frequent use of the primary health care services among frequent attenders: A Bayesian approach. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 28:1, pages 55-61.
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Frans ThM Smits, Henk J Brouwer, Gerben ter Riet & Henk CP van Weert. (2009) Epidemiology of frequent attenders: a 3-year historic cohort study comparing attendance, morbidity and prescriptions of one-year and persistent frequent attenders. BMC Public Health 9:1.
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