Substituting emergency services: primary care vs. hospital care

Primary care services and emergency medicine.

Putting to rest the myth that emergency department overcrowding is due to a lack of primary care services ustralia' s emergency departments (EDs) are dangerously overcrowded, but a study by Buckley and colleagues in this issue of the Journal (page 448) 1 should be the last nail in the coffin of the long-discredited myth that the root cause is a lack of primary care services. This study used a t...

[Emergency contraception: user's profile in primary care emergency services].

OBJECTIVES To establish the emergency contraception (EC) users profile and whether she perceives this type of contraception as an emergency. Design. Cross sectorial study (over one year period: March 2002-March 2003). SETTING Emergency Services in Primary Care. Usera and Carabanchel; 11th Area; Madrid. PARTICIPANTS Women requesting EC in these centres. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES A questionary ...

How to integrate social care services into primary health care? An experience from Iran

Background: Social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. In Iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. This study aimed to explore the roles and functions of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in providing social care services in Iran.   Methods: This was a qualitative study, for whic...

Tuberculosis diagnosis: primary health care or emergency medical services?

OBJECTIVE To assess primary health care and emergency medical services performance for tuberculosis diagnosis. METHODS Cross-sectional study were conducted with 90 health professionals from primary health care and 68 from emergency medical services, in Ribeirao Preto, SP, Southeastern Brazil, in 2009. A structured questionnaire based on an instrument of tuberculosis care assessment was used. ...

Primary care: the old bugbear of accident and emergency services.