title: Study of out-of-hours visits to children.
abstract: Out-of-hours calls made to children by an urban practice were studied over a 12-month period. Out of a total of 1463 out-of-hours visits, 336 were to children, of whom 17 were admitted to hospital. The proportion of the out-of-hours calls which were to children is less than had been expected. This unexpectedly low level of out-of-hours visits to children and the type of conditions encountered should be taken into account when planning vocational training programmes.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004739:England; D005194:Family Practice; D006760:Hospitalization; D006792:House Calls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013997:Time Factors