After-hours calls from long-term care facilities in a geriatric medicine training program

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1989-1994

  Hastings, S Nicole ^a,b   Whitson, Heather E ^a,b   White, Heidi K ^a,b,c   Sloane, Richard ^c   MacDonald, Heather ^c   Lekan, Deborah A ^d   McConnell, Eleanor S ^b,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Long term care; Physician nurse relations; Quality improvement; Telephone medicine

Indexed keywords

AGITATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITIES AND SERVICES; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; SCORING SYSTEM; TELEMEDICINE; TELEPHONE;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONG-TERM CARE; TELEPHONE;

EID: 36849074319     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01472.x     Document Type: Article

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