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Primary care doctors in acute call-outs to severe trauma incidents in Norway – variations by rural-urban settings and time factors

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background A severely injured patient needs fast transportation to a hospital that can provide definitive care. In Norway, approximately 20% of the population live in rural areas.
Kristian Rikstad Myklevoll, Erik Zakariassen, Tone Morken, Valborg Baste, Jesper Blinkenberg, Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik   +5 more
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Adoption of information technology in primary care physician offices in New Zealand and Denmark, part 1: healthcare system comparisons

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2008
Denmark and New Zealand are two small countries whose primary care physicians are at the forefront of the use of electronic medical records (EMRs). This is the first of a series of five papers which contrasts the health care systems in Denmark and New ...
Denis Protti, Tom Bowden, Ib Johansen
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Does an app make patients happy? Impact of a novel medical history app on patient satisfaction in urgent care consultations in Germany: cluster-randomized interventional trial ‘DASI’

BMC Health Services Research
Background Patient satisfaction is an important indicator of healthcare quality. However, time constraints in primary care limit effective communication and history-taking.
Eva Maria Noack, Kai Antweiler, Frank Müller, Dominik Schröder, Tim Friede, Eva Hummers, Lea Roddewig   +6 more
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The provision of out-of-hours care and associated costs in an urban area of Switzerland: a cost description study

BMC Family Practice, 2010
Background In Switzerland, General Practitioners (GPs) play an important role for out-of-hours emergency care as one service option beside freely accessible and costly emergency departments of hospitals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the services
Senn Oliver, Zoller Marco, Moshinsky Corrine, Imhof Daniel, Eichler Klaus, Rosemann Thomas, Huber Carola A   +6 more
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Preschool children in out-of-hours primary care – a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study of factors related to the medical relevance of health problems

BMC Family Practice, 2017
Background Out-of-hours primary care (OOH-PC) is intended to provide medical care services for health problems that cannot wait until normal office hours.
Grete Moth, Linda Huibers, Astrid Ovesen, Morten Bondo Christensen, Peter Vedsted   +4 more
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Do employees benefit from collaborations between out of hours general practitioners and emergency departments?

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background In an attempt to redirect patients who are inappropriately attending hospital emergency departments (ED) and in doing so provide the right care at the right place, out-of-hours GP (General Practitioner) services and EDs increasingly ...
Elisabeth Sybilla Johanna van Gils-van Rooij, Sjoerd Michael Broekman, Dingenus Herman de Bakker, Berthold Rudy Meijboom, Christoffel Joris Yzermans   +4 more
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Self reported involvement in emergency medicine among GPs in Norway

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2018
Objective: To examine general practitioners’ (GPs’) perception of their role in emergency medicine and participation in emergency services including ambulance call outs, and the characteristics of the GPs and casualty clinics associated with the GPs ...
Magnus Hjortdahl, Erik Zakariassen, Peder A. Halvorsen   +2 more
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Experience in Providing Medical Assistance to the Population of the Amur Region Exposed to the Effects of the Flood

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2014
Medical assistance to individuals residing in the flooded areas of the region was delivered on a priority basis throughout the health care institutions on the territorial-division principle, at the temporal accommodation sites, further on - long-term ...
N. L. Tezikov, M. P. Gulevich, N. A. Lipskaya, Yu. A. Natykan, N. N. Korotaeva   +4 more
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Antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections in Norwegian primary care out-of-hours service

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2017
Purpose: To examine factors correlating with antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in Norwegian primary care out-of-hours service.
Bent H. Lindberg, Svein Gjelstad, Mats Foshaug, Sigurd Høye   +3 more
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Sociodemographic Characteristics Associated with Contacts to Emergency Medical Services and Out-of-Hours Primary Care: An Observational Study of 2.3 Million Citizens

Clinical Epidemiology, 2020
Morten Breinholt Søvsø,1,2 Bodil Hammer Bech,3 Helle Collatz Christensen,4 Linda Huibers,2 Erika Frischknecht Christensen,1 Morten Bondo Christensen2 1Centre for Prehospital and Emergency Research, Aalborg University and Aalborg University ...
Søvsø MB, Bech BH, Christensen HC, Huibers L, Christensen EF, Christensen MB   +5 more
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