After-Hours Care - Standards
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The GP Patient Survey for use in primary care in the National Health Service in the UK--development and psychometric characteristics.

20 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: The UK National GP Patient Survey is one of the largest ever survey programmes of patients registered to receive primary health care, inviting five million respondents to report their experience of NHS primary healthcare. The third such ... Read more...

[Equipment for diagnostics, laboratory analyses and treatment in out-of-hours services]

12 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Availability of equipment for diagnostics and treatment in out-of-hours services in Norway is not documented and no guidelines exist on requirements for the various types of equipment (including drugs) needed. A knowledge basis on status ... Read more...

Emergency head CT scans: can neurosurgical registrars be relied upon to interpret them?

30 Mar 2009 Neurosurgical registrars are frequently called upon by A&E staff and physicians to interpret emergency head CT (computed tomography) scans out of hours. This appears to reflect the reduced threshold for scanning patients and the nonavailability of a ... Read more...

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

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The GP Patient Survey for use in primary care in the National Health Service in the UK--development and psychometric characteristics. 20 Aug 2009
• [Equipment for diagnostics, laboratory analyses and treatment in out-of-hours services] 12 May 2009
• Emergency head CT scans: can neurosurgical registrars be relied upon to interpret them? 30 Mar 2009
• Survey of maxillofacial 'out of hours' operating in the United Kingdom. 12 Mar 2009
• New methodology for using incognito standardised patients for telephone consultation in primary care. 30 Dec 2008
• Users' reports and evaluations of out-of-hours health care and the UK national quality requirements: a cross sectional study. 30 Dec 2008
• A retrospective investigation of the clinical management of patients attending an out of hours dental clinic in Merseyside under the new NHS dental contract. 3 Dec 2008
• Service redesign. Real lessons of Ethel the unreal. 2 Dec 2008
• Quality frameworks for telephone triage. 30 Oct 2008
• Quality of communication during telephone triage at Dutch out-of-hours centres. 6 Oct 2008
• [When will I be able to travel?] 29 Sep 2008
• Understanding patient experience of out-of-hours general practitioner services in South Wales: a qualitative study. 29 Sep 2008
• Out of hours standards to be applied to urgent care. 23 Sep 2008
• [Office hours] 13 Sep 2008
• Quality of clinical aspects of call handling at Dutch out of hours centres: cross sectional national study. 10 Sep 2008
• Telephone triage in out of hours call centres. 10 Sep 2008
• Does distance matter? Geographical variation in GP out-of-hours service use: an observational study. 29 Jun 2008
• Accessing out-of-hours care following implementation of the GMS contract: an observational study. 29 Apr 2008
• Impact of time of presentation on the care and outcomes of acute myocardial infarction. 19 Apr 2008
• Triage of febrile children at a GP cooperative: determinants of a consultation. 30 Mar 2008

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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