Peripheral outpatient clinics: use, costs, and benefits.

Peripheral outpatient clinics: use, costs, and benefits.

A census was taken of outpatient bookings at all hospitals and health centres in Oxfordshire for the main medical and surgical specialities. Nine per cent of all bookings were to peripheral clinics (that is, those outsie the two main medical centres at Oxford and Banbury). About half of all bookings in the area were made to clinics within three of four miles of the patients' homes. The work loa...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Urologist-operated ultrasound and its use in urological outpatient clinics

INTRODUCTION Ultrasonograghy plays an important role in the evaluation of urinary tract disorders in cases of medical or surgical renal disorders, because of its lower cost, availability, and lack of ionizing radiation and because with it there is no need for contrast material injection or ingestion. It needs no intervention or preparation and specifically can differentiate between the multiple...

Outpatient use and costs for veterans with combat-related injuries.

Elizabeth Bass, PhD; Dustin D. French, PhD; Kris Siddharthan, PhD The Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC) at the James A. Haley Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital in Tampa, Florida, is one of four centers in the United States managing postacute sequelae of polytrauma for injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. In accordance with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA...

clinical governance: costs and benefits