Referral Patterns
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13. Medicare physician referral patterns.
OBJECTIVE: To study patterns of referral between primary and specialty care providers among Medicare beneficiaries and to identify correlates of the probability of referral. DATA SOURCES: The 1992 and 1993 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), including associated claims data. MCBS data are linked to the Area Resource File (ARF) and the Physician Ident
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14. Mysterious form of referred sensation in man.
A phenomenon is described in which scratching a small excrescence on the skin on one part of the body is referred to a distant point as a "prick" or a "tingle". "Referral" points are elicited mainly by absent-minded scratching of the skin when attention is not focused on the local sensation produced by the scratch. Location of "referral" points seems to foll
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15. Health care of school children: effective referral patterns.
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16. A comparison of referral patterns and characteristics of patients with first episode symptomatic genital HSV-1 and HSV-2 infections in Sheffield.
OBJECTIVE: To ascertain factors associated with HSV-1 and HSV-2 isolates in patients attending a genitourinary medicine clinic with symptomatic first episode genital herpes (FEGH). DESIGN: Retrospective study. SUBJECTS: A total of 606 females and 333 males presenting with culture positive FEGH between 1990-94. SETTING: Department of Genitourinary Medicine, R
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17. The volume-outcome relationship: practice-makes-perfect or selective-referral patterns?
Various studies have demonstrated that hospitals with larger numbers of patients with a specific diagnosis or procedure have lower mortality rates. In some instances, these results have been interpreted to mean that physicians and hospital personnel with more of these patients develop greater skills and that this results in better outcomes--the "practice-mak
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18. Managing depression in a changing primary mental healthcare system: comparison of two snapshots of Australian GPs' treatment and referral patterns
Background Significant government spending has resulted in substantial changes to the Australian primary mental healthcare system. Initially producing the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOiMHC) initiative, this has been replaced by the Better Access to Mental Health Care programme, which allows all general practitioners (GPs) to refer patients for al
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19. General practitioners and district nurses: A study of referral patterns in the City of Aberdeen
Variation between Aberdeen general practitioners in referral rates for home and surgery nursing care is shown to be substantial and is related to the proportion of elderly patients in the practice, inversely to list size, to the doctor's experience, and to practice attachment of nurses. There is, however, a large unexplained variation which, it is suggested,
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20. Fundholders' referral patterns and perceptions of service quality in hospital provision of elective general surgery.
BACKGROUND. The introduction of fundholding established an internal market in public sector health care, involving purchasers and providers contracting for the supply of health care. AIM. This study set out to examine fundholders' hospital referral patterns, and to evaluate the quality of the service provided to patients undergoing elective general surgery,
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21. Open-access paediatric echocardiography: changing role and referral patterns to a consultant-led service in a tertiary referral centre.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the changing role of an open-access consultant-led paediatric echocardiography service for the detection and assessment of cardiac disease in children. DESIGN: A retrospective analysis comparing two patient groups undergoing echocardiography over two corresponding six month periods in 1989 and 1994. SETTING: A tertiary referral centre
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22. Utilisation of genitourinary medicine services by general practitioners: effect of geographic location, fundholding status, and potential effect of total fundholding.
OBJECTIVES: To determine the current utilisation of genitourinary medicine (GUM) services by general practitioners (GPs) and any changes likely to occur with moves towards a primary care led NHS. METHODS: A questionnaire survey of practising GPs appearing in the Medical Directory in England and Wales to determine the effect of geographical location, fundhold
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23. Consulting patterns after a television programme on sexually transmitted diseases.
The effect on the work load in one of two clinics featured in a television programme devoted to the sexually transmitted diseases was monitored. The patients' source of referral was recorded before and after the programme and the number of telephone inquiries noted during the same periods. For the two weeks after the programme 18% of the male patients and 13
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24. Occupational illness and poison control centers. Referral patterns and service needs.
In a study of occupational illness reported to a regional poison control center and to gauge the center's outreach and services, we did follow-up interviews of 301 case contacts over a 6-month period. We ascertained referral routes, reasons for contacting the poison control center, and awareness of the center's function. For 122 cases a nonphysician was the