Development, implementation, and pilot study of a sentinel network ("The Watchtowers") for monitoring emergency primary health care activity in Norway

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hansen, Elisabeth Holm ^a   Hunskaar, Steinar ^a,b  

^a National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORWAY; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; NORWAY; PILOT PROJECTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 41749109592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-62     Document Type: Article

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