منابع مشابه
Reducing after-hours referrals by an after-hours call center with second-level physician triage.
OBJECTIVES One-third of practices signing-out to The Children's Hospital Call Center in Denver, Colorado, choose to do second-level physician (SLP) triage for calls judged by the Center to require after-hours referral (AHR). We examined: 1) the effect of SLP triage on the rate of AHRs and 2) reasons for physicians' decisions. DESIGN From January 1998 to August 1998 all calls from patients usi...
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Objectives. One-third of practices signingout to The Children’s Hospital Call Center in Denver, Colorado, choose to do second-level physician (SLP) triage for calls judged by the Center to require after-hours referral (AHR). We examined: 1) the effect of SLP triage on the rate of AHRs and 2) reasons for physicians’ decisions. Design. From January 1998 to August 1998 all calls from patients usin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1980
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-198001000-00009