(Elsevier, 2007-08-17) De Vos, Pol; Vanlerberghe, Veerle; Rodríguez, Armando; García, René; Bonet, Mariano; Van der Stuyft, Patrick
Objectives
To rationalise the use of hospital emergency units, the Cuban health system developed from 1996 onwards an extra muros first line emergency system (FLES). We analyse the use of the FLES and its determinants, in order to develop proposals to channel inappropriate users to their family doctor.