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Gezondheidsproblemen en zorggebruik na drie rampen in Nederland: monitoring in de huisartspraktijk.

IJzermans, J., Soeteman, R. Gezondheidsproblemen en zorggebruik na drie rampen in Nederland: monitoring in de huisartspraktijk. Psychologie & Gezondheid: 2008, 36(3), p. 141-146.
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In the Netherlands, every citizen is obliged to be enlisted by one general practitioner (GP), who acts as a gatekeeper to secondary care. GPs register all patient and morbidity data in Electronic Medical Records (EMR). After disasters it is important to optimize the specific care for survivors, especially in primary care. That is why in the Netherlands the EMRs are used to survey (patterns of) utilization and health problems related to the disaster longitudinally. It is possible to obtain baseline data from the period before the disaster, there is no ‘recall bias’ and surveillance is no burden for the survivors. In this paper, the use of existing registries after disasters is illustrated by an overview of the study designs and major results of surveillance after three disasters in the Netherlands: a plane crash in Amsterdam (1992), the explosions of a fireworks depot in a residential area in Enschede (2000) and a café fire in Volendam (2001). (aut. ref.)
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