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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...
Autores principales: | Bosch, Xavier, Escoda, Ona, Nicolás, David, Coloma, Emmanuel, Fernández, Sara, Coca, Antonio, López-Soto, Alfonso |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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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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