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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:856-857.

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The practice of pediatric medicine requires competency in managing daytime and after-hours telephone consultations. Call rates range from 6.0 calls per night per 1000 infants to 0.2 calls per night per 1000 teenagers.¹ Some reports have suggested that calls from patients of nonprivate practices may be different and may arise from less serious conditions than calls from patients of private practices.² Our social pediatrics residency program trains residents to practice in underserved inner-city communities. As a prelude to developing a telephone medicine curriculum geared toward these populations, we conducted a needs assessment of the types of after-hours calls placed by parents whose children were seen at an inner-city ambulatory care center. We describe an analysis of all calls to the clinic's after-hours telephone number generated during a consecutive 12-month period.

This study was conducted at a community health center that serves a predominantly minority population who reside in the poorest . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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