The provision of out-of-hours care and associated costs in an urban area of Switzerland: a cost description study
Open Access
- 20 December 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Family Practice
- Vol. 11 (1) , 99
Abstract
In Switzerland, General Practitioners (GPs) play an important role for out-of-hours emergency care as one service option beside freely accessible and costly emergency departments of hospitals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the services provided and the economic consequences of a Swiss GP out-of-hours service.Keywords
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