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
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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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author Theocharis, George
Kechagias, Konstantinos S
Oikonomou, Michael
Chorepsima, Stamatia
Rodis, Dionisis
Salpigktis, Ioannis
Falagas, Matthew E
author_facet Theocharis, George
Kechagias, Konstantinos S
Oikonomou, Michael
Chorepsima, Stamatia
Rodis, Dionisis
Salpigktis, Ioannis
Falagas, Matthew E
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description 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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spelling pubmed-62011812018-10-26 A Model for Out-of-Hospital Multispecialty Emergency Medicine: Accomplishments and Challenges Theocharis, George Kechagias, Konstantinos S Oikonomou, Michael Chorepsima, Stamatia Rodis, Dionisis Salpigktis, Ioannis Falagas, Matthew E Health Serv Insights Commentary 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. SAGE Publications 2018-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6201181/ /pubmed/30369787 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178632918805996 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Theocharis, George
Kechagias, Konstantinos S
Oikonomou, Michael
Chorepsima, Stamatia
Rodis, Dionisis
Salpigktis, Ioannis
Falagas, Matthew E
A Model for Out-of-Hospital Multispecialty Emergency Medicine: Accomplishments and Challenges
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title_short A Model for Out-of-Hospital Multispecialty Emergency Medicine: Accomplishments and Challenges
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201181/
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