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Can after-hours family medicine clinics represent an alternative to emergency departments?

Survey of ambulatory patients seeking after-hours care

Wai-Ben Wong, Greg Edgar, Clare Liddy and Christian Vaillancourt
Canadian Family Physician November 2009, 55 (11) 1106-1107.e4;
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    Demographic characteristics of study participants: Participants were a mean of 43.8 (range 3–91) years of age.

    CHARACTERISTICN (%) N = 141
    Female sex*73 (53.2)
    Province of residence†
      • Ontario118 (83.7)
      • Quebec9 (6.4)
      • Other5 (3.5)
    Had a family physician‡109 (78.4)
    • ↵* Four participants did not answer this question.

    • ↵† Nine participants did not answer this question.

    • ↵‡ Two participants did not answer this question.

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