Improving access for Urgent patients in Paediatric Neurology

Improving access for Urgent patients in Paediatric Neurology

Referral and flow management is an important part of outpatient care; some patients require to be seen earlier than the next available appointment because of the nature of their presentation. We did not have a clear pathway for urgent patients being referred to our pediatric neurology service. When we reviewed this process in our Quality Improvement meeting we identified wide variation in the l...

Brain plasticity in paediatric neurology.

Plasticity includes the brain's capacity to be shaped or moulded by experience, the capacity to learn and remember, and the ability to reorganize and recover after injury. Mechanisms for plasticity include activity-dependent refinement of neuronal connections and synaptic plasticity as a substrate for learning and memory. The molecular mechanisms for these processes utilize signalling cascades ...

Minimal Access Surgery in Paediatric Patients

Introduction It is difficult to credit any one person for the development of minimal access surgery (MAS) (also referred to as minimally invansive surgery, or MIS, by some), but diagnostic laparoscopy has been used in various medical specialties since early in the 20th century. Laparoscopy was commonly used by gynecologists throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Semm performed the first laparoscopic a...

Access and care issues in urban urgent care clinic patients

BACKGROUND Although primary care should be the cornerstone of medical practice, inappropriate use of urgent care for non-urgent patients is a growing problem that has significant economic and healthcare consequences. The characteristics of patients who choose the urgent care setting, as well as the reasoning behind their decisions, is not well established. The purpose of this study was to deter...

The urgent need for a systems biology approach to neurology.