Effect of patients seeing a general practitioner in accident and emergency on their subsequent reattendance: Cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 320, Issue 7239, 2000, Pages 903-904

  Murphy, Andrew W ^a   Plunkett, Patrick K ^b   Bury, Gerard ^c   Leonard, Conor ^a   Walsh, Jane ^a   Lynam, Finian ^b   Johnson, Zachary ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d Health Information Unit   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0005161291     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.320.7239.903     Document Type: Article

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