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| Title |
Are German patients burdened by the practice charge for physician visits ('Praxisgebuehr')? A cross sectional analysis of socio-economic and health related factors
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, November 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-8-232 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ina-Maria Rückert, Jan Böcken, Andreas Mielck |
| Abstract |
In 2004, a practice charge for physician visits ('Praxisgebuehr') was implemented in the German health care system, mainly in order to reduce expenditures of sickness funds by reducing outpatient physician visits. In the statutory sickness funds, all adults now have to pay euro 10 at their first physician visit in each 3 month period, except for vaccinations and preventive services. This study looks at the effect of this new patient fee on delaying or avoiding physician visits, with a special emphasis on different income groups. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 66 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 34 | 52% |
| Ireland | 3 | 5% |
| Central African Republic | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 26 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 50 | 76% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 12 | 18% |
| Scientists | 4 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 44 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 43 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 14% |
| Researcher | 5 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 11% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 13 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 8 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 16% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 7% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 19 | 43% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 August 2019.
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#939,464
of 25,880,422 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#232
of 8,777 outputs
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#2,021
of 103,291 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#3
of 39 outputs
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