Out-of-hours primary care. Implications of organisation on costs

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Uden, Caro J T ^a,b   Ament, Andre J H A ^b   Voss, Gemma B W E ^a   Wesseling, Geertjan ^a   Winkens, Ron A G ^a,b   Van Schayck, Onno C P ^b   Crebolder, Harry F J M ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; EMERGENCY WARD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; COST; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; NETHERLANDS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; ANNUAL REPORTS AS TOPIC; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33646767142     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-29     Document Type: Article

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