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BMC Fam Pract2020;21(1):99.June 5, 2020Journal Article

Recent trends and variations in general practitioners' involvement in accident care in Switzerland: an analysis of claims data.

Marc Höglinger1, Fabio Knöfler2, Rita Schaumann-von Stosch3,4, Stefan M Scholz-Odermatt3, Klaus Eichler5
1Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Gertrudstrasse 15, 8401, Winterthur, Switzerland. marc.hoeglinger@zhaw.ch.
2XUND - Bildungszentrum Gesundheit Zentralschweiz, Alpnach, Switzerland.
3SUVA - Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund, Lucerne, Switzerland.
4SGTV - Swiss Association for Traumatology and Insurance Medicine, Bern, Switzerland.
5Winterthur Institute of Health Economics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Gertrudstrasse 15, 8401, Winterthur, Switzerland.
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: As in other countries, there is concern and some fragmentary evidence that GPs' central role in the Swiss healthcare system as the primary provider of care might be changing or even be in decline. Our study gives a systematic account of GPs' involvement in accident care from 2008 to 2016 and identifies changes in GPs' involvement in this typical field of primary care: how frequently GP…

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