Compliance with advice and appropriateness of emergency presentation following contact with the HealthDirect telephone triage service

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-40

  Sprivulis, Peter ^a,b   Carey, Mary ^c   Rouse, Ian ^c  

^a State Emergency Service Association   (Australia)

^b FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Compliance; Emergency department; Linkage; Telephone triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTHDIRECT SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEPHONE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORKLOAD;

EID: 2142769864     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2004.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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