Telephone triage in out of hours call centres

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7671, 2008, Pages 644-645

  Car, Josip ^a   Koshy, Elizabeth ^a   Bell, Derek ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENINGITIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECONSULTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; NETHERLANDS; NOTE; STANDARD;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; REMOTE CONSULTATION; TRIAGE;

EID: 52649138503     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a1167     Document Type: Editorial

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