A Model for Out-of-Hospital Multispecialty Emergency Medicine: Accomplishments and Challenges

Home care has been traditionally considered as an important type of medical service. “SOS Doctors” is a Greek organization providing out-of-hospital multispecialty emergency medicine services the past 25 years. Its services mainly meet the demands of the elderly and the nonambulatory patients. The d...

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Autores principales: Theocharis, George, Kechagias, Konstantinos S, Oikonomou, Michael, Chorepsima, Stamatia, Rodis, Dionisis, Salpigktis, Ioannis, Falagas, Matthew E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201181/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30369787
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178632918805996
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Sumario:Home care has been traditionally considered as an important type of medical service. “SOS Doctors” is a Greek organization providing out-of-hospital multispecialty emergency medicine services the past 25 years. Its services mainly meet the demands of the elderly and the nonambulatory patients. The decreased number of hospitalizations, hospital-related infections, and need for patient transportation are the main advantages of a model for out-of-hospital multispecialty emergency medicine. However, the time consumed by the doctor related to transportation is a drawback of medical house calls. Despite the challenges, medical house calls are a useful part of health services in the modern health care system.

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