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- Title
After-hours care in the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the Netherlands: new models.
- Authors
Grol, Richard; Giesen, Paul; van Uden, Caro
- Abstract
There are indications that after-hours care in some countries is of poor quality. European after-hours care is shifting away from individual and group practices with local after-hours call schedules toward large-scale after-hours care services. Experiences with primary care cooperatives in three countries show that this model can lighten physicians' workloads, reduce the number of face-to-face contacts, reduce use of emergency services and hospital admissions, and lower costs. Most patients accept these new models but are dissatisfied if they expect to see a physician. Local or regional integration of all emergency services seems to be the most promising model for after-hours care.
- Publication
Health affairs (Project Hope), 2006, Vol 25, Issue 6, p1733
- ISSN
1544-5208
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.25.6.1733