Nonurgent emergency department patient characteristics and barriers to primary care

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1302-1310

  Afilalo, Jonathan ^a   Marinovich, Adrian ^a   Afilalo, Marc ^a,b   Colacone, Antoinette ^a   Léger, Ruth ^a   Unger, Bernard ^a   Giguère, Claudine ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

emergency department; nonurgent visits; patient characteristics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH VISITOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SCALE UP; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRUST;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUEBEC; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 9644303198     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.08.032     Document Type: Article

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