Health Care

After-Hours Care

Medical care provided after the regular daily practice schedule of the physicians. Usually it is designed to deliver 24-hour-a-day and 365 day-a-year patient care coverage for emergencies, triage, pediatric care, and hospice care.

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Abstract

Medical care provided after the regular daily practice schedule of the physicians. Usually it is designed to deliver 24-hour-a-day and 365 day-a-year patient care coverage for emergencies, triage, pediatric care, and hospice care.

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7 entry terms
  • After Hours Care
  • Out-of-Hours Medical Care
  • Medical Care, Out-of-Hours
  • Out of Hours Medical Care
  • Practitioner Cooperative
  • Cooperatives, Practitioner
  • Practitioner Cooperatives

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2003

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Previous Indexing

  • Emergency Medical Services (1991-2002)
  • Telephone (1991-2002)

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  1. N04w.590.374w.034w
  2. N05.300w.049w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. After-Hours Care. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D039602. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D039602
  2. After-Hours Care. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-hours_service
  3. After-Hours Care. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3375456