Volume and nature of telephone calls in a specialty headache practice

Headache

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 883-887

  Loder, Elizabeth ^a   Geweke, Lynne ^a  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Headache practice; Telephone calls

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; EMERGENCIES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0036803537     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4610.2002.02207.x     Document Type: Article

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