patient views for self-referral to specialists

Guidelines for referral to pediatric surgical specialists.

Referral to pediatric surgical specialists.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, with the collaboration of the Surgical Sections of the American Academy of Pediatrics, has created referral recommendations intended to serve as voluntary practice parameters to assist general pediatricians in determining when and to whom to refer their patients for pediatric surgical specialty care. It is recognized that these recommendations may be difficul...

Brazilian Specialists’ Perspectives on the Patient Referral Process

Since 1988, healthcare has been considered a citizen's right in Brazil. The Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), has undergone development and expansion to ensure universal health coverage for the Brazilian public, the world's fifth largest population. The coordination of effective communications between primary care physicians, specialists and patients is a significant challenge, particularly the ref...

Musculoskeletal physiotherapy: patient self-referral

QIPP Evidence provides users with practical case studies that address the quality and productivity challenge in health and social care. All examples submitted are evaluated by NICE. This evaluation is based on the degree to which the initiative meets the QIPP criteria of savings, quality, evidence and implementability; each criterion is given a score which are then combined to give an overall s...

Lanka - - > Views of Specialists on referral communications - a qualitative study from Sri Lanka

Background: Delivery by cesarean is a common operative procedure experienced by reproductive age women. Factors which increase risk include older maternal age, obesity, parity and poor vitamin D use along with a more recently defined factor maternal nutrition. Recent research has found low circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), the primary indicator of vitamin D status, among women who were...

Chapter 5: Referral to specialists and models of care

1. Provision of specific therapy based on diagnosis 2. Slowing/arresting CKD progression 3. Evaluation and management of comorbid conditions 4. Prevention and management of CVD 5. Identification, prevention, and management of CKDspecific complications (e.g., malnutrition, anemia, bone disease, acidosis) 6. Planning and preparation for RRT (e.g., choice of modality, access-placement and care, pr...