{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["8(6)"],"submitter":["Kelly SJ"],"funding":["Primary Care Sheffield"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objectives</h4>This report describes the patients who used additional out-of-hours (OOH) appointments offered through a UK scheme intended to increase patient access to primary care by extending OOH provision.<h4>Design</h4>Cohort study and survey data.<h4>Setting</h4>OOH appointments offered in four units in one region in England (October 2015 to November 2016).<h4>Methods</h4>Unidentifiable data on all patients were abstracted from a bespoke appointment system and the responses to a patient opinion questionnaire about this service. Descriptive analysis of the appointment data was conducted. Multivariate analysis of the opinion survey data examined the characteristics of the patients who would have gone to the emergency department (ED) had the OOH appointments not been available.<h4>R"],"journal":["BMJ open"],"pagination":["e020308"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6009516"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Who attends out-of-hours general practice appointments? Analysis of a patient cohort accessing new out-of-hours units."],"pmcid":["PMC6009516"],"pubmed_authors":["Fowler Davis SV","Ibbotson R","Kelly SJ","Piercy H"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Who attends out-of-hours general practice appointments? Analysis of a patient cohort accessing new out-of-hours units.","description":"<h4>Objectives</h4>This report describes the patients who used additional out-of-hours (OOH) appointments offered through a UK scheme intended to increase patient access to primary care by extending OOH provision.<h4>Design</h4>Cohort study and survey data.<h4>Setting</h4>OOH appointments offered in four units in one region in England (October 2015 to November 2016).<h4>Methods</h4>Unidentifiable data on all patients were abstracted from a bespoke appointment system and the responses to a patient opinion questionnaire about this service. Descriptive analysis of the appointment data was conducted. Multivariate analysis of the opinion survey data examined the characteristics of the patients who would have gone to the emergency department (ED) had the OOH appointments not been available.<h4>R","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Jun","modification":"2025-04-26T08:17:45.382Z","creation":"2019-03-26T22:47:28Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6009516","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29886444"],"doi":["10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020308"]}}