Why did Patients Default Follow-Up at Accident and Emergency Department and Ways to Reduce Default Rate? - A Retrospective Study

Why do patients default from follow-up at a genitourinary clinic?: a multivariate analysis.

OBJECTIVE Firstly to compare the proportion of patients defaulting from follow up at a genitourinary medicine clinic with those attending other hospital based clinics. Secondly to determine which factors are associated with non attendance at a city centre genitourinary medicine clinic. METHODOLOGY The proportion of patients who defaulted at a genitourinary medicine clinic, a general medical c...

Why do patients default from follow up at a genitourinary clinic?

Primary care follow up of patients discharged from the emergency department: a retrospective study

BACKGROUND The visit to the emergency department (ED) constitutes a brief, yet an important point in the continuum of medical care. The aim of our study was to evaluate the continuity of care of adult ED visitors. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed all ED discharge summaries for over a month 's period. The ED chart, referral letter and the patient's primary care file were reviewed. Data coll...

Why parents refuse newborn hearing screening and default on follow-up rescreening--a South African perspective.

OBJECTIVES This study describes screen refusal and follow-up default characteristics together with caregiver reasons for screen refusal and follow-up default in two South African universal newborn hearing screening programs. METHODS A retrospective record review of universal newborn hearing screening conducted at two hospitals (Hospital A n = 954 infants; Hospital B n = 2135) over a 31-33 mon...

Gaming New Zealand’s Emergency Department Target: How and Why Did It Vary Over Time and Between Organisations?

Background Gaming is a potentially dysfunctional consequence of performance measurement and management systems in the health sector and more generally. In 2009, the New Zealand government initiated a Shorter Stays in Emergency Department (SSED) target in which 95% of patients would be admitted, discharged or transferred from an emergency department (ED) within 6 hours. The implementation ...