hospital referral

She points out, too, that many older people expect a hospital referral.

No patient should experience a delay of more than 18 weeks from initial hospital referral to final treatment.

An audit of the effect of these guidelines on hospital referral practice has been described.

What has happened since 1960 has turned this ancient social welfare institution into the country's leading tertiary hospital referral, teaching, and medical research system.

An exchange of letters: hospital referrals.

Keep track of hospital referrals Further guidance on software will be issued in the Spring of 1990.'

- Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, has announced plans to ban minimum waiting times for hospital referrals.

Of over 4000 consecutive general hospital referrals for self-poisoning and self-injury during the 5 years from 1980 to 1984, 13 per cent involved self-inflicted injuries.

In Edinburgh (Kreitman 1977) and Bristol (Morgan et al.1975a), patients with self-injuries have constituted approximately 5 per cent of the total number of attempted suicide patients identified on the basis of general hospital referrals.

Another consideration goes to hospital referral; although more severe pneumonia requires admission to an acute care facility, this also predisposes to hazards of hospitalization such as delirium, urinary incontinence, depression, falls, restraint use, functional decline, adverse drug effects and hospital infections.

The Open Clinic is the only clinic of its kind in Israel providing primary medical care and specialized medicine, as well as hospital referrals and medical follow-up to persons with no civil status, free of charge or for a minimal fee.

For example, the Leapfrog group, [ 52 ] a coalition of the nation's largest employers, has identified three practice - computerized physician order entry, evidence-based hospital referral for high-risk procedures, and intensive care unit physician staffing - that they believe will substantially improve safety.

Potential consumers learn of CMWAC through the Red Book Directory of Community Services (a list of community services in the Vancouver/Richmond Health District published by the local health authority), hospital referrals, public speakers, and by work-of-mouth.

The quality practices mandated are computer physician order entry CPOE, evidence-based hospital referral, intensive care unit (ICU) staffing by physicians experienced in critical care medicine, and a "Leapfrog Safe Practices Score", based on the National Quality Forum endorsed Safe Practices.