Articles: emergency-medicine.
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An attempt was made to determine the extent to which physicians trained and certified in family medicine are involved in emergency medicine. An 18-item, self-report questionnaire was mailed to 73 graduates of a family practice residency program to obtain information on their practices, their professional and emergency medicine experiences, and their attitudes toward the practice of emergency medicine by family practitioners. ⋯ Supplemental income was cited the most often as a reason for becoming involved in emergency medicine. Only variables related to the physicians' attitudes discriminated between those who were practicing emergency medicine and those who were not.
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Since the early 1970s there has been a co-ordinated retrieval service in South Australia for adult, paediatric and neonatal patients. The paediatric service has been mounted from the Adelaide Children's Hospital and to the end of 1983 numbers 379 patients, including 90 patients in 1983. ⋯ The records have been entered into a file program in a microcomputer and analysed. The results of this analysis are presented and discussed.