Patient presentations to an after-hours general practice, an urgent care clinic and an emergency department on Sundays: a comparative, observational study.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine which factors are associated with 6,065 patient presentations with non-life-threatening urgent conditions (NLTUCs) to an after-hours general practice, an urgent care clinic (UCC) and an emergency department (ED) on Sundays in Southeast Queensland (Qld).

Design/methodology/approach: A retrospective, comparative and observational study was conducted involving the auditing of medical records of patients with NLTUCs consulting three medical services between 0,800 and 1,700 h, on Sundays, over a one-year period. The study was limited to 6,065 patients.

Factors associated with choice of health service delivery for after-hours, urgent, non-life-threatening conditions: a patient survey.

The objective of this study was to determine factors associated with patient or carer choice of presentation to an emergency department, an urgent care clinic and an after-hours general practice on Sundays in south-east Queensland. The design of the study was a cross-sectional survey of patients or carers. The study setting was an emergency department, an urgent care clinic and an after-hours general practice.