An International Comparative Family Medicine Study of the Transition Project Data from the Netherlands, Malta, Japan and Serbia. An Analysis of Diagnostic Odds Ratios Aggregated Across Age Bands, Years of Observation and Individual Practices

Introduction. This is a study of the process of diagnosis in family medicine (FM) in four practice populations from the Netherlands, Malta, Serbia and Japan. Diagnostic odds ratios (ORs) for common reasons for encounter (RfEs) and episode titles are used to study the process of diagnosis in international FM and to test the assumption that data can be aggregated across different age bands, practices and years of observation. Methodology. Participating family doctors (FDs) recorded details of all their patient contacts in an episode of care (EoC) structure using the International Classification... Mehr ...