title: Primary care in the emergency room: a collaborative model.
abstract: Emergency rooms have become primary care centers for a large portion of the population. Unfortunately, most are neither designed nor appropriately staffed to deliver first-line, continuous, comprehensive, family-oriented, and self-actualizing care. This paper describes a nurse-managed collaborative primary care practice model that has been functioning for 8 years in an inner city emergency department.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Middleton
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Whitney
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*