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

• Auteurs principaux: Mika Lehto (Auteur), Katri Mustonen (Auteur), Jarmo Kantonen (Auteur), Marko Raina (Auteur), Anna-Maria K. Heikkinen (Auteur), Timo Kauppila (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: SAGE Publishing, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: 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...