Older persons are frailer after an emergency care visit to the out-of-hours general practitioner cooperative in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional descriptive TOPICS-MDS study

BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands, community-dwelling older people with primary care emergency problems contact the General Practitioner Cooperative (GPC) after hours. However, frailty remains an often unobserved hazard with adverse health outcomes. The aim of this study was to provide insight into dif...

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Published in:BMC Fam Pract
Main Authors: Bloemhoff, Anneke, Schoon, Yvonne, Smulders, Kien, Akkermans, Reinier, Vloet, Lilian C. M., van den Berg, Karin, Berben, Sivera A. A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7441648/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32819281
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01220-y
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