General practitioners ending their practice and impact on patients' health, health care use and mortality. A protocol for national registry cohort studies in Norway, 2006 to 2021.

2023-01-26 primary care research Title + abstract only

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IntroductionContinuous general practitioner (GP) and patient relations associate with positive health outcomes. Termination of GP-practice is unavoidable, while consequences of final breaks in relations are less explored. We will study how an ended GP-relation affects patients health care utilization and mortality, compared to patients with a continuous GP-relation. Methods and analysisLinking personal-level national registries data on GP-affiliation, sociodemographic characteristics, health ca...