Walk-ins seeking treatment at an emergency department or general practitioner out-of-hours service: A cross-sectional comparison

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chmiel, Corinne ^a   Huber, Carola A ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^a   Zoller, Marco ^a   Eichler, Klaus ^b   Sidler, Patrick ^c   Senn, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c Stadtspital Waid   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955692139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-94     Document Type: Article

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