Abstract
Background With a population of about 1,000,000 inhabitants, Metropolitan Thessaloniki is the second largest town in Greece and the capital of the region of Macedonia. Among the city's 12 public hospitals, Papageorgiou General Hospital is one of its four tertiary health care facilities. In the metropolitan areas of Athens and Thessaloniki, public hospitals are on-call not on a daily, but on a one-in-four-days rotation basis. This system leads to an immense number of patients that presents every day to the Emergency Outpatient Departments (EOD) of Greek public hospitals, but exact data on the use (and maybe misuse) of public health facilities remain scarce.
Highlights
With a population of about 1,000,000 inhabitants, Metropolitan Thessaloniki is the second largest town in Greece and the capital of the region of Macedonia
This system leads to an immense number of patients that presents every day
medical data were collected from all patients presenting for a presumed neurological disorder
Summary
Emmanuil Dermitzakis*, Jobst Rudolf, Ioannis Gravas, Panagiotis Kyriakidis, Chrysanthi Bouziani, Georgios Georgiadis and Iakovos Tsiptsios. Address: Department of Neurology, General Hospital “Papageorgiou”, Thessaloniki, Greece * Corresponding author from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour Thessaloniki, Greece. Published: 17 April 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S176 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-S1-S176. International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour Meeting abstracts - A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here.
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