Family practice
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Review Comparative Study
Frequent attenders of Finnish public primary health care: sociodemographic characteristics and physical morbidity.
In this article results of a Finnish study on frequent attender patients of public primary health care are reported. These patients (n = 96) were compared with other patients (n = 466) attending the same surgeries. ⋯ The results indicate that many frequent attender patients complaints form a complicated network departing from different levels (physical, psychological and social). The implications of the findings are discussed.