Norwegian regular general practitioners' experiences with out-of-hours emergency situations and procedures

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 528-532

  Zakariassen, Erik ^a,b   Sandvik, H ^a   Hunskaar, S ^a,c  

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

^b DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHMA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORWAY; OXYGEN MASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX PAIN; VASCULAR ACCESS; WORKING TIME;

ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY;

EID: 49449083378     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.054338     Document Type: Article

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