Frequency of calls to "on-call" house officer pagers at Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 1231, 2006, Pages

  Chiu, Tin ^a   Old, Andrew ^a   Naden, Gill ^a   Child, Stephen ^a  

^a AUCKLAND DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB STRESS; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEW ZEALAND; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGERY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKLOAD; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICINE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

HOSPITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 33645470184     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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