We studied the changes in presented health problems and demand for primary care since
the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Netherlands. We analyzed …

Background Differences between women and men play an important role in lung physiology
and epidemiology of respiratory diseases, but also in the health care processes. Objective …

Background Primary care is known to be one of the most complex health care settings
because of the high number of theoretically possible diagnoses. Therefore, the process of …

Introduction: Symptom diagnoses are diagnoses used in primary care when the relevant
diagnostic criteria of a disease are not fulfilled. Although symptom diagnoses often get …

Introduction: Structuring patient and practice data into episodes formed the foundation of the
earliest evidence base of family medicine. We aim to make patients' narratives part of the …

Objective Little insight exists into sex differences in diagnostic trajectories for common
somatic symptoms. This study aims to quantify sex differences in the provided primary care …

The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) developed the third edition of the
International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-3) to support the shift from a medical …

Objective: We aim to explore how GPs assign meanings and act upon patients' symptoms in
primary care encounters in the context of standardized cancer patient pathways (CPPs) …

Background: Recently it was shown that the relative lack of diagnostic interventions
conducted in women mediated the negative association between female sex and diagnosed …

Introduction The burden of symptoms is a subjective experience of distress. Little is known
on the burden of feeling unwell in patients with persistent symptom diagnoses. The aim of …