General practitioners’ reflections on referring: An asymmetric or non-dialogical process?

The consultants’ role in the referring process with general practitioners: partners or adjudicators? a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Within the health system, communication between the different levels of care is essential for the patients' clinical pathways and medical treatment. This includes the referral process: how and why patients are sent from the primary care level to specialist health services. We wanted to identify and describe hospital consultants' reflections on and attitudes to the referral process an...

Investigation and Simulation of Wire Non-Asymmetric Rolling Process

The non-asymmetric rolling process of copper and brass wire has been simulated with the Abaqus software. Presented finite element model in this simulation of rolling predicted output curvature and contact surface width in the non-asymmetric mode (in equality of diameter of rollers, the rotational speed of the rollers and the rollers’ surface finish). The material used in this research has strai...

An Investigation on Tadao Ando’s Phenomenological Reflections

Factors that influence general practitioners' choice of hospital when referring patients for elective surgery.

To describe the factors that influence general practitioners' choice of hospital when referring patients for elective surgery in three specialties, a postal questionnaire was distributed in January 1991 to 449 doctors who had referred patients to one of six hospitals in the North Western Regional Health Authority. Responses were received from 260 general practitioners (58%). Of the respondents ...

"Personal mission statement": An analysis of medical students' and general practitioners' reflections on personal beliefs, values and goals in life.

BACKGROUND Personal mission in life can determine the motivation, happiness, career advancement and fulfilment in life of the medical students (MSs) along with improvement in professional/clinical performance of the family physicians. This study explored the personal beliefs, values and goals in the lives of MSs and general practitioners (GPs). METHODS Fourth-year MSs at the Universiti Putra ...