Psychosomatic diseases have a great impact on health care utilisation in general practices. The relation between psychosomatic comorbidity and health care utilisation in primary care is analysed in the doctoral thesis. Patients were included consecutively and filled in the Patients Health Questionnaire (PHQ) in a cross sectional study. Numbers of practice visits, referrals and periods of disability within the last twelve months and permanent mental and somatic diagnoses were extracted manually by review of the computerised charts. It could be shown that the psychosomatic comorbidity had a strong impact on the number of practice visits, referrals and periods of disability.
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Psychosomatic diseases have a great impact on health care utilisation in general practices. The relation between psychosomatic comorbidity and health care utilisation in primary care is analysed in the doctoral thesis. Patients were included consecutively and filled in the Patients Health Questionnaire (PHQ) in a cross sectional study. Numbers of practice visits, referrals and periods of disability within the last twelve months and permanent mental and somatic diagnoses were extracted manually b...
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