Avoidable emergency admissions?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 707-711

  Lillebo, Borge ^a,b   Dyrstad, Bodil ^a,c   Grimsmo, Anders ^b  

^a Out of Hours Primary Care Centre   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSING HOME; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD;

EMERGENCY CARE SYSTEMS, ADMISSION AVOIDANCE; EMERGENCY CARE SYSTEMS, PRIMARY CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882455420     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201630     Document Type: Article

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