Treatment of ambulant patients by a general practitioner within a university hospital’s emergency department – follow-up study of patients’ behaviour shortly afterwards

2018/07/04 by Olaf Krause, Krause, Olaf, Tanja Schleef +7
Medicine · Health Professions · Psychology · #Emergency and Acute Care Studies #Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare #Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints

paper · doi:10.3205/000264

Abstract

A noteworthy number of patients considered visiting the ED again with similar symptoms instead of visiting a GP in ambulatory care. Consequently our findings suggest that the ED itself plays a minor role in navigating patients' utilisation of medical treatment.

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