How to minimize inappropriate utilization of Accident and Emergency Departments: Improve the validity of classifying the general practice cases amongst the A&E attendees

Health Policy

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-168

  Lee, Albert ^a   Hazlett, Clarke B ^b   Chow, S ^c   Lau, Fei Lung ^e   Kam, Chak Wah ^e   Wong, Patrick ^e   Wong, Tai Wai ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d PAMELA YOUDE NETHERSOLE EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Accident and Emergency; Classification; Primary care cases; Validity

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FIRST AID; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HONG KONG; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; SCREENING; VALIDATION PROCESS; WELLBEING;

EID: 0142258096     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8510(03)00023-X     Document Type: Article

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