Why do walk-in patients prefer a busy urban emergency department during office hours? A pilot survey of 200 consecutive patients from Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 142, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Müller, Urs ^a   Winterhalder, Regina ^a   Businger, Adrian ^a   Zimmermann, Heinz ^a   Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Overcrowding; Switzerland; Walk in patients

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; URBAN AREA; WORKING TIME;

EID: 84878671054     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13565     Document Type: Article

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