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Frequency of the complaint fainting as reason for encounter in general practice in the Netherlands. Data are obtained from the general practitioners’ transition.

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1 Frequency of the complaint fainting as reason for encounter in general practice in the Netherlands. Data are obtained from the general practitioners’ transition project. It concerns an analysis of 93,297 patient-years. The arrow around 1 year is to indicate that a small peak occurs between 6-18 months. (From Wieling W, Ganzeboom KS, Krediet CT, Grundmeijer HG, Wilde AA, van Dijk JG. Initial diagnostic strategy in the case of transient losses of consciousness: the importance of the medical history. Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde. 2003;147(18):849–854.) Source: Syncope, Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 7e Citation: Halter JB, Ouslander JG, Studenski S, High KP, Asthana S, Supiano MA, Ritchie C. Hazzard's Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 7e; 2017 Available at: Accessed: November 16, 2017 Copyright © 2017 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved


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