After-Hours Care - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Education research: patient telephone calls in a movement disorders center: lessons in physician-trainee education.

6 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Telephone medicine is part of clinical practice, but there are no published data on the volume, nature, and time allocation of patient-related telephone calls received in a movement disorders center. Such data might provide insights which ... Read more...

The National Poison Center in Norway: user satisfaction and a health economic evaluation.

8 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to find out how satisfied users are with the National Poison Center of Norway and to make a health economic evaluation of the service. METHOD: The material consisted of telephone interviews with 310 users of the ... Read more...

Emergency joint aspiration: a guide for radiologists on call.

29 Jun 2009 Septic arthritis is a disabling and possibly life-threatening disease that requires early diagnosis for optimal management. It is important that clinical and imaging features of septic arthritis be promptly identified. In addition, because other ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'After-Hours Care - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Education research: patient telephone calls in a movement disorders center: lessons in physician-trainee education. 6 Sep 2009
• Cell phone communication with patients: love it or hate it? 30 Aug 2009
• Cell phone communication with patients: love it or hate it? 30 Aug 2009
• The National Poison Center in Norway: user satisfaction and a health economic evaluation. 8 Jul 2009
• Emergency joint aspiration: a guide for radiologists on call. 29 Jun 2009
• New methodology for using incognito standardised patients for telephone consultation in primary care. 30 Dec 2008
• Hospital-owned and operated outpatient imaging centers: strategies for success. 30 Jul 2008
• Patient handoffs, or walking along a narrow mountain ledge. 5 Mar 2008
• Use of mobile phone cameras for after-hours triage in primary care. 30 Dec 2007
• Relations of sex differences in initial Body Mass Index and physical activity with observed changes over 12 weeks among children in the Youth Fit for Life after-school care intervention. 29 Nov 2007
• Out-of-hours prescribing: a survey of current practice in the UK. 29 Sep 2007
• The host hospital 24-hour underreferral rate: an automated measure of call-center safety. 30 May 2007
• Out-of-hours co-operatives: general practitioner satisfaction with governance and working arrangements. 30 Dec 2005
• Development and evaluation of a hand held computer based on-call pack for health protection out of hours duty: a pilot study. 9 Apr 2005
• Remote order entry and video verification: reducing after-hours medication errors in a rural hospital. 30 Jul 2004
• Evaluation of an after hours telephone support service for rural palliative care patients and their families: A pilot study. 30 May 2004
• Management of ventricular fibrillation or unstable ventricular tachycardia in patients with congenital long-QT syndrome: a suggested modification to ACLS guidelines. 29 Sep 2003
• Does telephone triage delay significant medical treatment?: Advice nurse service vs on-call pediatricians. 29 Jun 2003

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Technical information about 'After-Hours Care'

Definition: Medical care provided after the regular practice schedule of the physicians. Usually it is designed to deliver 24-hour-a-day and 365-day-a-year patient care coverage for emergencies, triage, pediatric care, or hospice care.

Descriptor UI: D039602

Alternative terms: After-Hours Care; Out-of-Hours Medical Care; Medical Care, Out-of-Hours; Out of Hours Medical Care; After Hours Care;

Related Mesh Headings: Night Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.374.034; N05.300.049;

History Note: 2003