Acute medical care. The right person, in the right setting - First time: How does practice match the report recommendations?

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 553-556

  Ward, David ^a   Potter, Jonathan ^a   Ingham, Jane ^a   Percival, Fran ^b   Bell, Derek ^b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute medicine; Medical staffing; Out of hours medical care; Patient care management; Physician's practice patterns

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSULTATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 71849092536     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-6-553     Document Type: Article

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