The Patients Illness Perceptions and the Use of Primary Health Care
Lisbeth Frostholm, MSc,
Per Fink, MD, PhD, DMSc,
Kaj S. Christensen, MD, PhD,
Tomas Toft, MD, PhD,
Eva Oernboel, MSc,
Frede Olesen, MD, PhD, DMSc and
John Weinman, PhD
From the Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark (L.F., P.F., K.S.C., T.T., E.O.); Research Unit of General Practice, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (F.O.); Health Psychology Section, Department of Psychology (at Guys), Institute of Psychiatry, Thomas Guy House, London, United Kingdom (J.W.).

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Figure 2. Health care use in quarters 3 years before and 2 years after baseline (quarter 0).
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