Yonder: Suicide, rhinosinusitis, urgent care centres, and favourite patients
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Urgent care centres.
Although the growth of urgent care centres in the past 5 years has been phenomenal (180 urgent care centres in 1980; in excess of 3000 urgent care centres in 1985), they have been in existence since the early 1970s. Astute physicians, many of them involved in emergency medicine, saw that a significant percentage of the patient population utilizing hospital-based emergency departments consisted ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of General Practice
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0960-1643,1478-5242
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp16x686845