Table of contents (10/2011 - selection)

Editorial

EBM

Miscellaneous

Review

• Documentation and Coding in Family Medicine – a Proposal for Solution

  Summary: Medical documentation primarily serves the management of clinical care of individual patients. Coding is not categorically necessary for this purpose. In...

  Thomas Maibaum, Martin Tauscher, Jochen Gensichen, Peter Engeser

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Original Papers

• Systemic and Dynamic Aspects of the Entireness in a Theory of Family Medicine

  Summary: Is the postulate of “entireness” and “pluralism” in medicine undermining its scientific aspiration? Or is this possibly a “phase transition” towards a new way...

  Theodor Dierk Petzold

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• Referrals from Family Practitioners to Specialists in Ambulatory Care in Baden-Württemberg Before Implementation of Managed Primary Care Contracts

  Background: Coordination is a primary role of family practitioners and is required by newly implemented health care models in Germany. Referrals to specialists are the...

  Markus Gulich, Dagmar Gröber-Grätz, Hans-Peter Zeitler

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Case Report

• Quandary Diagnosis Pharyngitis

  Summary: Here we report a worthwhile case of a thyreoiditis de quervain presented as unspecific infection. Only a typical ultrasound image of the thyroid gland lead to...

  Julia Schuenemann, Florian Heidrich, Mathias Lindstedt

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Congress

• Bericht vom 17. Nordischen Kongress für Allgemeinmedizin in Tromsö

  Caring for People Where They Are

  Report from the 17th Nordic Congress of Family Medicine in Tromsö ...

  Harald Kamps

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Special Article

• Bericht über ein zweiwöchiges Auslandspraktikum im Kosovo

  V. Professionalization Course of DEGAM

  Report on a Two-Week Internship in KosovoSummary: Since 1999, the DEGAM has organized five professional development courses, which provide family practitioners (FP’s)...

  Ute Schnell

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