Consultation and Referral to a Dentist - The Missing Link in the System of Iran's Health System: Letter Editor

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting the timing of psychiatric consultations and the impact of timing on length of hospital stay. It also assessed the relationships between the timing of consultations and some clinical factors. METHODS 264 adult patients consecutively referred to the psychiatric C-L service at King Khaled University Hospital in Riyadh were ...

the high comorbidity of medical and psychiatric diagnoses in the general hospital population requires collaboration between various medical fields to provide comprehensive health care. this study aims to find the rate of psychiatric consultations, their timing and overall diagnostic trend in comparison to previous studies. tehran university of medical sciences has got an active psychiatric cons...

BACKGROUND Electronic referral and consultation systems are gaining popularity, but their contribution to the patient centered medical home-neighborhood framework of coordinated care delivery is not clear. We examined how specialists leverage an electronic referral and consultation system to deliver specialty care, identified determinants of high-quality electronic specialist communication and ...

BACKGROUND In surgical wards, it is of paramount importance to communicate with other health care providers, mostly physicians, referring patients to them for their consultation on any health conditions that affect pre-operative, operative and post-operative patient care. The purposes of this investigation were to assess the appropriateness of physician responses in medical consultation reports...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors affecting the length of hospital stay (LOS) of patients referred to psychiatric consultation liaison (C-L) services. METHODS The study sample prospectively included all the referrals in 2004 to the C-L psychiatry unit at King Khaled University Hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The following factors were documented for each consultation: patient demograp...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of joint consultation on referral behaviour of general practitioners (GPs) in a prospective cohort study. METHODS All patients with rheumatological complaints that 17 participating GPs, from the area of the University Hospital Maastricht, wanted to refer during a two year inclusion period (n=166) were eligible for inclusion. These patients were either referred ...

BACKGROUND Recruiting to target in randomised controlled trials of investigational medicinal products (CTIMPs) in primary care and paediatric populations is notoriously difficult. More evidence is needed for effective recruitment strategies in these settings. We report on the impact of different recruitment strategies used in the Choice of Moisturiser in Eczema Treatment (COMET) study - a feasi...