RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Health problems of people with intellectual disabilities: the impact for general practice
JF British Journal of General Practice
JO Br J Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 64
OP 66
VO 57
IS 534
A1 Jos MJAA Straetmans
A1 Henny MJ van Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk
A1 Francois G Schellevis
A1 Geert-Jan Dinant
YR 2007
UL http://bjgp.org/content/57/534/64.abstract
AB This study aimed to analyse the health problems and prescriptions of people with intellectual disabilities registered with GPs. Within the Second Dutch National Survey of General Practice evidence was gathered on the differences in health problems between people with intellectual disabilities and control persons (without intellectual disabilities). In a 1:5 matched sample, people with intellectual disabilities paid 1.7 times more visits to GPs. They presented a different morbidity pattern, and received four times as many repeat prescriptions. People with intellectual disabilities increase a GP's workload.