Association of common mental disorders and quality of life with the frequency of attendance in Slovenian family medicine practices: longitudinal study.

BACKGROUND: Most research on frequent attendance has been cross-sectional and restricted to one year attendance rates. A few longitudinal studies suggest that frequent attendance is self-limiting. Frequent attenders are more likely to have social and psychiatric problems, medically unexplained physi...

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Main Authors: Janez Rifel, Igor Svab, Polona Selič, Danica Rotar Pavlič, Irwin Nazareth, Josip Car
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3546928?pdf=render