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

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...

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Main Authors: Mika Lehto, Katri Mustonen, Jarmo Kantonen, Marko Raina, Anna-Maria K. Heikkinen, Timo Kauppila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2150132719865151