Do patients prefer to see their own physician for urgent care?(Tips from Other Journals)(Report)

Publication: American Family Physician

Publication Date: 15-MAY-08

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Background: Patient satisfaction with medical services can affect compliance and the physician-patient relationship. Patients' access to their own physician for perceived urgent medical issues varies among communities and local health care systems. Options can include emergency departments, walk-in clinics, after-hour facilities staffed by their own or associated physicians, and telephone advisory lines. Care received in urgent care centers and emergency departments can be more expensive, but walk-in clinics...

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