Impact of the ABCDE triage in primary care emergency department on the number of patient visits to different parts of the health care system in Espoo City

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kantonen, Jarmo ^a,b   Menezes, Ricardo ^c,d   Heinänen, Tuula ^e   Mattila, Juho ^f   Mattila, Kari J ^g,h   Kauppila, Timo ^a,i,j  

^a City of Vantaa   (Finland)

^b Attendo Medone LTD   (Finland)

^c City of Espoo   (Finland)

^d Medivida LTD   (Finland)

^e Emergency services project   (Finland)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^h PIRKANMAA HOSPITAL DISTRICT   (Finland)

ⁱ HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF HELSINKI AND UUSIMAA   (Finland)

^j Department of National Public Health ^*  (Finland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FINLAND; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FINLAND; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TRIAGE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84855269898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-12-2     Document Type: Article

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