caa a22 4500 397498330 CHVBK 20180308164526.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199509 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/fampra/12.3.294 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/fampra/12.3.294 House calls for respiratory tract infections; family medicine pure and simple? [Elektronische Daten] [RA de Melker, J van der Velden, MM Kuyvenhoven] House calls still seem to be an important element in the work of general practitioners in the Netherlands. A secondary analysis of the data of the Netherlands Institute of Primary Health Care (NIVEL) National Study of Illnesses and Procedures reveals that 15% of the contacts relating to cases of respiratory tract infections are house calls. General practitioners appear to consider carefully whether or not to make house calls. House call figures differ considerably with respect to diagnosis, reasons for encounter and age. Relatively high percentages of house calls occur in cases of lower respiratory tract infections, fever as reason for encounter, for old people and young children. The number of house calls is hardly associated with region, level of urbanization and distance from a hospital. Further research is necessary to establish guidelines for the decision whether or not to make a house call. © Oxford University Press Original articles nationallicence de Melker RA Department of Family Medicine, University of Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands aut van der Velden J. Department of Family Medicine, University of Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands aut Kuyvenhoven MM Department of Family Medicine, University of Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands aut Family Practice Oxford University Press 12/3(1995-09), 294-298 0263-2136 12:3<294 1995 12 famprj https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/12.3.294 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/12.3.294 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Melker RA Department of Family Medicine, University of Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van der Velden J. Department of Family Medicine, University of Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kuyvenhoven MM Department of Family Medicine, University of Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Family Practice Oxford University Press 12/3(1995-09), 294-298 0263-2136 12:3<294 1995 12 famprj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford