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| Title |
Primary care referrals of patients with potentially serious diseases to the emergency department or a quick diagnosis unit: a cross-sectional retrospective study
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| Published in |
BMC Primary Care, April 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2296-15-75 |
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| Authors |
Xavier Bosch, Ona Escoda, David Nicolás, Emmanuel Coloma, Sara Fernández, Antonio Coca, Alfonso López-Soto |
| Abstract |
In Spain, primary healthcare (PHC) referrals for diagnostic procedures are subject to long waiting-times, and physicians and patients often use the emergency department (ED) as a shortcut. We aimed to determine whether patients evaluated at a hospital outpatient quick diagnosis unit (QDU) who were referred to ED from 12 PHC centers could have been directly referred to QDU, thus avoiding ED visits. As a secondary objective, we determined the proportion of QDU patients who might have been evaluated in a less rapid, non-QDU setting. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 32 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 32 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 6 | 19% |
| Researcher | 5 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 13% |
| Other | 4 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 10 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 34% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 9% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 2 | 6% |
| Unknown | 11 | 34% |