Contacting out-of-hours primary care or emergency medical services for time-critical conditions - impact on patient outcomes

• Main Authors: Morten Breinholt Søvsø (Author), Morten Bondo Christensen (Author), Bodil Hammer Bech (Author), Helle Collatz Christensen (Author), Erika Frischknecht Christensen (Author), Linda Huibers (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Out-of-hours (OOH) healthcare services in Western countries are often differentiated into out-of-hours primary healthcare services (OOH-PC) and emergency medical services (EMS). Call waiting time, triage model and intended aims differ between these services. Consequently, the car...