After-Hours Care
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Forecasting and perception of average and latest hours worked by on-call anesthesiologists.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: We studied the value of providing information to anesthesia providers about the length of time typically worked during on-call shifts. The mean time at which a shift ends can be used for purposes of trades, payments, or reverse auctions, ... Read more...

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 worsening of ED on-call coverage in California: 6-year trend.

30 Aug 2009 To reassess problems with on-call physician coverage in California, we repeated our anonymous 2000 survey of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Physicians responded from 77.4% of California emergency departments ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'After-Hours Care'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [What happened to the epicrisis from the out-of-hours care?] 17 Oct 2009
• Forecasting and perception of average and latest hours worked by on-call anesthesiologists. 29 Sep 2009
• 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 worsening of ED on-call coverage in California: 6-year trend. 30 Aug 2009
• Associations of physician volume and weekend admissions with ischemic stroke outcome in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based study. 30 Aug 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
• [On the leash] 13 Aug 2009
• How to set up an effective national primary angioplasty network: lessons learned from five European countries. 30 Jul 2009
• Sentinel monitoring of activity of out-of-hours services in Norway in 2007: an observational study. 20 Jul 2009
• The National Poison Center in Norway: user satisfaction and a health economic evaluation. 8 Jul 2009
• After hours palliative care. 29 Jun 2009
• Emergency joint aspiration: a guide for radiologists on call. 29 Jun 2009
• Urgent endoscopy: what is the rush? Interview by Paul C. Adams. 29 Jun 2009
• [In-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation at Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavik] 29 Jun 2009
• The UK nephrostomy audit. Can a voluntary registry produce robust performance data? 22 Jun 2009
• Out-of-hours care in western countries: assessment of different organizational models. 21 Jun 2009
• [After-hours-care and general practice] 6 Jun 2009
• Off hour admission to an intensivist-led ICU is not associated with increased mortality. 3 Jun 2009

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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