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- Title
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.
- Authors
Bloemhoff, Anneke; Schoon, Yvonne; Smulders, Kien; Akkermans, Reinier; Vloet, Lilian C M; van den Berg, Karin; Berben, Sivera A A; TOPICS-MDS Consortium
- Abstract
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 differences between older persons with or without GPC emergency care visits (reference group) regarding frailty and healthcare use.
- Publication
BMC family practice, 2020, Vol 21, Issue 1, p171
- ISSN
1471-2296
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12875-020-01220-y