General practitioners’ and out-of-hours doctors’ role as gatekeeper in emergency admissions to somatic hospitals in Norway: registry-based observational study

BACKGROUND: Primary care doctors have a gatekeeper function in many healthcare systems, and strategies to reduce emergency hospital admissions often focus on general practitioners’ (GPs’) and out-of-hours (OOH) doctors’ role. The aim of the present study was to investigate these doctors’ role in eme...

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Published in:BMC Health Serv Res
Main Authors: Blinkenberg, Jesper, Pahlavanyali, Sahar, Hetlevik, Øystein, Sandvik, Hogne, Hunskaar, Steinar
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6693245/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31412931
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4419-0
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