General practitioners' contribution to the management of community-acquired pneumonia in the Netherlands: a retrospective analysis of primary care, hospital, and national mortality databases with individual data linkage Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an important cause of hospital admission and death, but the extent of the problem of CAP at the primary healthcare level is largely unknown.
AIMS: To investigate the contribution of general practitioners (GPs) to the management of patients with CAP in the Netherlands.
METHODS: The study population consisted of all people enlisted in a GP network. We obtained information on CAP ...