Nurse telephone triage in out-of-hours GP practice: Determinants of independent advice and return consultation

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Charante, Eric Peter Moll ^a   Ter Riet, Gerben ^b   Drost, Sara ^a   Van Der Linden, Loes ^a   Klazinga, Niek S ^a   Bindels, Patrick J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSULTATION; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; OTALGIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; TELEPHONE; THORAX PAIN; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PILOT STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; TRIAGE;

EID: 33845805285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-74     Document Type: Article

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