Observational studyJournal of primary care & community health
A Primary Care Emergency Service Reduction Did Not Increase Office-Hour Service Use: A Longitudinal Follow-up Study.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness and safety of emergency department-based streaming interventions for low-acuity utilizers - systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Changes in office-hours doctor and nurse consultations: six-year register-based follow-up cohort study in the public primary health care of City of Vantaa, Finland.International journal of circumpolar health · 2025Article
- Change of primary health care service provider model in Vantaa: the impact on mortality and causes of death among older adults - a register-based follow-up study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Changes in location and number of nurse consultations as the supply of general practitioners decreases in primary health care: six-year register-based follow-up cohort study in the city of Vantaa, Finland.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2024Article
- Impact of the Swine flu pandemic on General Practitioner (GP) visits in Finland: sex and age differences.BMC primary care · 2024Observational
- Comparison of two GP service provider models in older adults: a register-based follow-up study.BJGP open · 2023Article
- Development of office-hours use of primary health centers in the early years of the 21International journal of circumpolar health · 2022Observational
- Development of the use of primary health care emergency departments after interventions aimed at decreasing overcrowding: a longitudinal follow-up study.BMC emergency medicine · 2022Observational
- The influence of electronic reminders on recording diagnoses in a primary health care emergency department: a register-based study in a Finnish town.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2021Article
- Do electronic reminders alter recorded diagnoses in primary care office-hours practices of health centers: A register-based study in a Finnish city.SAGE open medicine · 2021Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This study, conducted in a Finnish city, examined whether decreasing emergency department (ED) services in an overcrowded primary care ED and corresponding direction to office-hour primary care would guide patients to office-hour visits to general practitioners (GP). This was an observational retrospective study based on a before-and-after design carried out by gradually decreasing ED services in primary care. The interventions were (
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