Specialist involvement and referral patterns in ambulatory medical care for patients with dementia in Germany: results of a claims data based case-control study.

Hendrik Bussche van den; Birgitt Wiese; Daniela Koller; Marion Eisele; Hanna Kaduszkiewicz; Wolfgang Maier; Gerd Glaeske; Susanne Steinmann; Karl Wegscheider; Gerhard Schön

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-11-148

Specialist involvement and referral patterns in ambulatory medical care for patients with dementia in Germany: results of a claims data based case-control study.

Hendrik Bussche van den
Birgitt Wiese
Daniela Koller
Marion Eisele
Hanna Kaduszkiewicz
Wolfgang Maier
Gerd Glaeske
Susanne Steinmann
Karl Wegscheider
Gerhard Schön

Related Research units

Department of General Practice and Primary Care
Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology

Abstract

To analyze the referral processes from general practitioners to specialists and among specialists for dementia patients in the time periods before, during and after the diagnosis in Germany.

Bibliographical data

Original language	English
ISSN	1472-6963
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-148
Publication status	Published - 2011

pubmed	21679453