Riddell J A
Br Med J. 1980 Jun 21;280(6230):1518-9. doi: 10.1136/bmj.280.6230.1518.
In one year 1644 out-of-hours calls were undertaken by a partnership of eight doctors working in a deprived inner urban area and a deprived large council housing estate; of these calls 332 were performed between the hours of 11 pm and 7 am. The number of calls required in the housing estate, 1077, was about twice as many as in the inner urban area, although the same doctors were using the same criteria for a visit. The rate of visits of 107 per 1000 patients in the housing estate was much higher than in other published series. The reasons for this difference appeared to be related to the comparative youth of parents and the number of young children.
在一年时间里，一个由八名医生组成的团队在一个贫困的市中心城区和一个贫困的大型市政住宅区提供非工作时间的上门医疗服务；在这些出诊中，有332次是在晚上11点至早上7点之间进行的。尽管是同一批医生按照相同的出诊标准，但住宅区所需的出诊次数为1077次，大约是市中心城区的两倍。住宅区每1000名患者107次的出诊率远高于其他已发表的统计数据。这种差异的原因似乎与父母相对年轻以及幼儿数量有关。
