The provision of out-of-hours care and associated costs in an urban area of Switzerland: A cost description study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Eichler, Klaus ^a   Imhof, Daniel ^a   Moshinsky, Corrine Chmiel ^b   Zoller, Marco ^b   Senn, Oliver ^b   Rosemann, Thomas ^b   Huber, Carola A ^b  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; COST; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MALE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; TELEPHONE;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; AMBULATORY CARE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SWITZERLAND; TELEPHONE; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 78650283680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-11-99     Document Type: Article

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