Introduction Increasing numbers of hospital emergency department (ED) visits pose a
challenge to health systems in many countries. This paper aims to examine emergency and …

Emergency departments are the front line of health care systems and play a critical role in
ensuring an efficient and high-quality response for patients in stress or crisis situations. A …

Objective To synthesise international evidence for demand, use and outcomes of primary
care out-of-hours health services (OOHS). Design Systematic scoping review. Data sources …

Enhancing the spatial accessibility to medical facilities is an important public health strategy
in many countries. However, it is not clear whether enhancing spatial accessibility is capable …

Objectives The increasing number of low-acuity visits to emergency departments (ED) is an
important issue in Germany, despite the fact that all costs of inpatient and outpatient …

Objectives To describe how processes of primary care access influence decisions to seek
help at the emergency department (ED). Design Ethnographic case study combining non …

Introduction 50 years ago, the British GP Julian Tudor Hart first described the 'inverse care
law'in a paper in the Lancet. 1 The law states:'The availability of good medical care tends to …

Ziel der Studie: Die Anzahl der Patienten in den Notaufnahmen der Krankenhäuser steigt
stetig. Die Beweggründe der Patienten für die Inanspruchnahme von Notaufnahmen wurden …

Out-of-hours (OOH) services provide urgent primary care when primary care physician
(PCP) offices are closed, most often from 5pm on weekdays and all day on weekends and …

Abstract Background The Swedish Primary Health Care (PHC) system has, like in other
European countries, undergone a gradual transition towards marketization and privatization …