Consumption in out-of-hours health care: Danes double Dutch?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the quantitative consumption in out-of-hours (OOH) primary care in Denmark and the Netherlands, in the context of OOH care services.

Design

A retrospective observational study describing contacts with OOH care services, using registration data.

Setting

OOH care services (i.e. OOH primary care, emergency department, and ambulance care) in one Danish and one Dutch region.

Subjects

All patients contacting the OOH care services in September and October 2011.

Main outcome measures

Consumption as number of contacts per 1000 inhabitants in total and per age group per contact type.

Results

For the two-month period the Danes had 80/1000 contacts with OOH primary care compared with 50/1000 for the Dutch. The number of contacts per 1000 in

SUBMITTER: Huibers L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4137903 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature