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Continuous Morbidity Registration sentinel stations. The Netherlands 2000
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Edited by A I M Bartelds. (Pp 162; € 15.) Utrecht: NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for health services research, 2002. ISBN 90-6905-555-4
The purpose of the book is to present data gathered by 67 general practitioners (GPs) in a national network of 47 sentinel stations covering 1% of the Dutch population. Sentinel GPs submit a weekly form to report certain illnesses, occurrences, and procedures. The book describes topic conditions for the “weekly returns”, practice populations, methods, scale, and continuity of reporting. Appropriate …