title: [Emergencies and management by the family practitioner].
abstract: 4.6% of all consultations realized by family doctors (including consultations in the doctor's practice, visits to the patients' homes, medical on-call service) can be characterized as emergency consultations. In the provision of health care by family doctors those circumstances that require medical intervention without delay are to be characterized as emergency situations (even if life is not immediately threatened). 11.6% of all emergency calls are made because of a cold (in particular, in the case of small children) or a hurt (open wound, contusion, or fracture). According to physicians, 54.5% of the emergency consultations were based on urgent circumstances. In those cases where only life-threatening circumstances were registered as emergency cases, 15.2% of the above percentage of emergency consultations were underestimated by the patients as to their urgency.
authors.affiliation: institut für Sozialhygiene und Organisation des Gesundheitswesens, Maxim Zetkin, DDR.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wiesner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wendt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004630:Emergencies; D005194:Family Practice / Q000639:trends*; D005859:Germany, East; D006792:House Calls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
vernacular_title: Notfallgeschehen und hausärztliche Betreuung.