OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency of barriers to specialty care and to assess which barriers are associated with an incomplete specialty referral (not attending a specialty visit when referred by a primary care provider) among children seen in community health centers. STUDY DESIGN Two months after their child's specialty referral, 341 parents completed telephone surveys assessing whether a s...

BACKGROUND The first-line treatment for symptomatic Morton's neuroma in our hospital is a perineural ultrasound-guided injection of corticosteroid and local anaesthetic (USI). The NHS has recently implemented 18-week referral-to-treatment targets. When GPs specifically suggest a diagnosis of Morton's neuroma there are two referral pathways in our hospital: direct referral to radiology for USI (...

The referral priority program—an emerging business practice adopted by a growing number of technology companies that manage a waitlist of customers—enables existing customers on the waitlist to gain priority access if they successfully refer new customers to the waitlist. Unlike more commonly used referral reward programs, this novel mechanism does not offer monetary compensation to referring c...

INTRODUCTION Health care delivery systems in rural areas face numerous challenges in meeting the community's needs. This study aimed to describe barriers of health care process in rural societies in Iran. METHODS In this qualitative study, 26 participants (21 rural health care providers and five rural patients) were selected through purposive sampling. The data was collected via semi-structur...

Background: Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is one indicator to see the health status of women. mortality a very important problem for received attention because death does not only affect women, but also affects conditions families and communities. This women are main pillars in family who play an role educating children, providing care family, helping economy. rate that reflects maternal status...

BACKGROUND Home Based Management of fever (HBM) was introduced as a national policy in Uganda to increase access to prompt presumptive treatment of malaria. Pre-packed Chloroquine/Fansidar combination is distributed free of charge to febrile children <5 years. Persisting fever or danger signs are referred to the health centre. We assessed overall referral rate, causes of referral, referral comp...