Hospital or general practice? Results of two experiments limiting the number of self referrals of patients with injuries to hospitals in the Netherlands

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 264-268

  Sixma, Herman J ^a   De Bakker, Dinny H ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accident and emergency departments; Cost effectiveness; Patient reports; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; TELEPHONE;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0030036437     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.13.4.264     Document Type: Article

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