Predictors of emergency department referral in patients using out-of-hours primary care services

Maria Paola Scapinello, Andrea Posocco, Irene De Ronch, Francesco Castrogiovanni, Gianluca Lollo, Guglielmo Sergi, Iginio Tomaselli, Loris Tonon, Marco Solmi, Stefano Traversa, Vincenzo Zambianco and Nicola Veronese

Health Policy, 2016, vol. 120, issue 9, 1001-1007

Abstract: Out of hours (OOH) doctors could manage many cases limiting the inappropriate accesses to ED. However the possible determinants of referral to ED by OOH doctors are poorly studied. We aimed to characterize patients referred from the OOH to ED service in order to explore the gate-keeping role of OOH service for hospital emergency care and to facilitate future research in improving its cost-effectiveness.

Keywords: Out-of-hours primary care; Emergency department; Gate-keeping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.07.018

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