Referral decisions and its predictors related to orthopaedic care. A retrospective study in a novel primary care setting

• Esther H. A. van den Bogaart ,

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

  * E-mail: e.vandenbogaart@maastrichtuniversity.nl

  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/0000-0001-6489-9586

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• Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg, Mariëlle E. A. L. Kroese, Dirk Ruwaard

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  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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• Mariëlle E. A. L. Kroese ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg, Mariëlle E. A. L. Kroese, Dirk Ruwaard

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  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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• Mark W. van den Boogaart ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MWB and TAEJB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Tim A. E. J. Boymans ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MWB and TAEJB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Dirk Ruwaard

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg, Mariëlle E. A. L. Kroese, Dirk Ruwaard

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  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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