European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Is information sharing between the emergency department and primary care useful to the care of frequent emergency department users?
To assess whether easy access to medical information of the emergency department's (ED) frequent users would be useful to patient care in the ED and at primary healthcare centres (PHCs), and if resource utilization in the following year would be affected. ⋯ Although only a small subgroup's information was shared, yielding no decrease in overall healthcare utilization, the study indicated benefits of the enhanced information at the respective care level and also had important clinical and organizational implications.