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Emergency room as primary point of access in the German healthcare system : Objective evaluation and interview of motivation for ER entrance of 235 ER patients in a German hospital.

Document type:
Journal Article
Author(s):
Pförringer, Dominik; Pflüger, Patrick; Waehlert, Lilia; Beivers, Andreas; Seidl, Fritz; Duscher, Dominik; Obermeier, Andreas; Kanz, Karl-Georg; Braun, Karl-Friedrich; Edenharter, Günther
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: The importance of emergency rooms (ERs) as everyday healthcare suppliers is growing. Due to increasing patient flows, hospitals are forced to raise physicians' and caregivers' headcount continuously to meet the new demand of patients seeing the ER as primary point of contact in non-emergency situations. Patients from various cultural and educational backgrounds approach the ER for different reasons. Detailed understanding of these reasons and their roots is key to be able to offer gu...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg
Year:
2021
Journal volume:
47
Journal issue:
2
Pages contribution:
453-460
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1007/s00068-019-01173-7
Pubmed ID:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31209556
Print-ISSN:
1863-9933
TUM Institution:
Klinik für Anästhesiologie (DHM); Klinik und Poliklinik für Orthopädie und Sportorthopädie; Klinik und Poliklinik für Unfallchirurgie; Lehrstuhl für Plastische Chirurgie und Handchirurgie (Prof. Machens)
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