General practitioners' separate out of hours contract
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General practitioners' perceptions of the appropriateness and inappropriateness of out-of-hours calls.
BACKGROUND The number of out-of-hours calls to general practitioners (GPs) has increased steadily during the past 20 years. The proportion of inappropriate calls are reportedly increasing but we know very little about how GPs judge a call to be appropriate or inappropriate. AIM To determine the factors that influence GPs' perceptions of the appropriateness or inappropriateness of out-of-hours...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.311.7002.456b