Impact of standalone and embedded telephone triage systems on after hours primary medical care service utilisation and mix in Australia

Australia and New Zealand Health Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Dunt, David ^a   Day, Susan E ^a   Kelaher, Margaret ^a   Montalto, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b EPWORTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTICE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOME CARE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEPHONE;

EID: 33845198191     PISSN: 17438462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8462-2-30     Document Type: Article

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