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Patients’ Characteristics and General Practitioners’ Management of Patients with Symptom Diagnoses

Asma Chaabouni, Juul Houwen, Iris Walraven, Kees van Boven, Hans Peters, Henk Schers and Tim olde Hartman
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2023, 36 (3) 477-492; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2022.220335R1
Asma Chaabouni
From the Department of primary and community care, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (AC, JH, KVB, HP, HS, TOH); Department of health evidence, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (IW).
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Juul Houwen
From the Department of primary and community care, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (AC, JH, KVB, HP, HS, TOH); Department of health evidence, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (IW).
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Iris Walraven
From the Department of primary and community care, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (AC, JH, KVB, HP, HS, TOH); Department of health evidence, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (IW).
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Kees van Boven
From the Department of primary and community care, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (AC, JH, KVB, HP, HS, TOH); Department of health evidence, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (IW).
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Hans Peters
From the Department of primary and community care, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (AC, JH, KVB, HP, HS, TOH); Department of health evidence, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (IW).
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Henk Schers
From the Department of primary and community care, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (AC, JH, KVB, HP, HS, TOH); Department of health evidence, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (IW).
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Tim olde Hartman
From the Department of primary and community care, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (AC, JH, KVB, HP, HS, TOH); Department of health evidence, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (IW).
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vol. 36 no. 3 477-492
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2022.220335R1
PubMed 
37290830

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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1557-2625
Online ISSN 
1558-7118
History 
  • Received for publication September 27, 2022
  • Revision received January 23, 2023
  • Accepted for publication January 27, 2023
  • Published online June 8, 2023.

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  1. Asma Chaabouni, MD, MSc,
  2. Juul Houwen, MD, PhD,
  3. Iris Walraven, PhD,
  4. Kees van Boven, MD, PhD,
  5. Hans Peters,
  6. Henk Schers, MD, PhD and
  7. Tim olde Hartman, MD, PhD
  1. From the Department of primary and community care, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (AC, JH, KVB, HP, HS, TOH); Department of health evidence, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (IW).
  1. Corresponding author: Chaabouni Asma, MD, MSc, Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud Institute of Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (E-mail: asma.chaabouni{at}radboudumc.nl).
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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2023, 36 (3) 477-492; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2022.220335R1

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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2023, 36 (3) 477-492; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2022.220335R1
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