A Primary Care Emergency Service Reduction Did Not Increase Office-Hour Service Use: A Longitudinal Follow-up Study

• Main Authors: Mika Lehto (Author), Katri Mustonen (Author), Jarmo Kantonen (Author), Marko Raina (Author), Anna-Maria K. Heikkinen (Author), Timo Kauppila (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study, conducted in a Finnish city, examined whether decreasing emergency department (ED) services in an overcrowded primary care ED and corresponding direction to office-hour primary care would guide patients to office-hour visits to general practitioners (GP). This was an observational retros...