Primary care referrals of patients with potentially serious diseases to the emergency department or a quick diagnosis unit: a cross-sectional retrospective study

BACKGROUND: In Spain, primary healthcare (PHC) referrals for diagnostic procedures are subject to long waiting-times, and physicians and patients often use the emergency department (ED) as a shortcut. We aimed to determine whether patients evaluated at a hospital outpatient quick diagnosis unit (QDU...

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Autores principales: Bosch, Xavier, Escoda, Ona, Nicolás, David, Coloma, Emmanuel, Fernández, Sara, Coca, Antonio, López-Soto, Alfonso
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4021313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24775097
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-15-75

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4021313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24775097
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-15-75

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