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ArticleHealth services insights2018

A Model for Out-of-Hospital Multispecialty Emergency Medicine: Accomplishments and Challenges.

George Theocharis, Konstantinos S Kechagias, Michael Oikonomou, Stamatia Chorepsima, Dionisis Rodis, Ioannis Salpigktis, Matthew E Falagas

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Article in Health services insights, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors.

George TheocharisSOS Doctors, Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos S KechagiasAlfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), Athens, Greece.
Michael OikonomouSOS Doctors, Athens, Greece.
Stamatia ChorepsimaAlfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), Athens, Greece.
Dionisis RodisSOS Doctors, Athens, Greece.
Ioannis SalpigktisSOS Doctors, Athens, Greece.
Matthew E FalagasAlfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences (AIBS), Athens, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5905-2695

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Home care has been traditionally considered as an important type of medical service. "SOS Doctors" is a Greek organization providing out-of-hospital multispecialty emergency medicine services the past 25 years. Its services mainly meet the demands of the elderly and the nonambulatory patients. The decreased number of hospitalizations, hospital-related infections, and need for patient transportation are the main advantages of a model for out-of-hospital multispecialty emergency medicine. However, the time consumed by the doctor related to transportation is a drawback of medical house calls. Despite the challenges, medical house calls are a useful part of health services in the modern health care system.

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