Tumor Board Checklists Affect Pretreatment Clinic Referral Patterns

The haematuria clinic--referral patterns in Northern Ireland.

One hundred consecutive patients with haematuria were seen over a three month period at the haematuria clinic, Belfast City Hospital. 14% of patients were found to have transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder; all of these presented with frank haematuria and were over 50 years of age. No malignancy was detected in the microscopic haematuria group. 14% of patients with macroscopic hae...

Getting surgical teams on board for OR checklists and briefings.

Chiropractic clinic offered referral kickbacks.

Understanding referral patterns to an epilepsy clinic: Professional perceptions of factors influencing the referral of older adults

PURPOSE The number of older patients with epilepsy has been increasing steadily, however older adults have been shown to be referred less commonly to specialist epilepsy services than younger individuals. The aim of this study was to explore staff perceptions of why older adults may be under-represented in epilepsy clinics. METHOD We conducted 19 interviews with potential referrers and staff ...

Lyme disease in a British referral clinic.

BACKGROUND Concerns about over-diagnosis and inappropriate management of Lyme disease (LD) are well documented in North America and supported by clinical data. There are few parallel data on the situation in the UK. AIM To describe the patterns of referral, investigation, diagnosis and treatment of patients with suspected LD referred to an infectious disease unit in Liverpool, UK. Previous ma...