Substitution of outpatient hospital care with specialist care in the primary care setting: A systematic review on quality of care, health and costs

Sofie J. M. van Hoof; Tessa C. C. Quanjel; Mariëlle E. A. L. Kroese; Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg; Dirk Ruwaard

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0219957

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Substitution of outpatient hospital care with specialist care in the primary care setting: A systematic review on quality of care, health and costs

Sofie J. M. van Hoof ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sofie J. M. van Hoof, Tessa C. C. Quanjel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: s.vanhoof@maastrichtuniversity.nl (SJMH); t.quanjel@maastrichtuniversity.nl (TCCQ)

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1542-6621

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Tessa C. C. Quanjel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sofie J. M. van Hoof, Tessa C. C. Quanjel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: s.vanhoof@maastrichtuniversity.nl (SJMH); t.quanjel@maastrichtuniversity.nl (TCCQ)

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Mariëlle E. A. L. Kroese ,

Roles Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg ,

Roles Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Research Centre for Technology in Care, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Heerlen, the Netherlands
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Dirk Ruwaard

Roles Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Substitution of outpatient hospital care with specialist care in the primary care setting: A systematic review on quality of care, health and costs

Sofie J. M. van Hoof,
Tessa C. C. Quanjel,
Mariëlle E. A. L. Kroese,
Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg,
Dirk Ruwaard

Published: August 1, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219957

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