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Background and Objectives: Informal payment in the health settings is a significant challenge facing the health system, with consequences such as inequity in access to healthcare services, distrust to health care system, and dissatisfied customers. Detailed identification of the nature of the problem is perquisite to developing relevant overcoming strategies. Given that, this study aimed at pro...

Objectives: To evaluate consultations requested from the department of general surgery in terms type, source and adequacy outcome regarding practice. Methods: A total 4706 during 2019 calendar year were included this retrospective study. Data on patient demographics, type consultation (urgent, routine), requesting clinic, time request, response to request (min), diagnosis management consulted p...

The interaction between emergency physicians and consultants is an important component of patient care. In this commentary, we offer suggestions to both physicians who ask for consultations and consultants who receive those requests. This advice applies mostly to medical students and junior residents who are just learning their way around the emergency department and who are susceptible to both...

Objective: To describe filling patterns and associated transcriptional aspects in phlebotomy tubes received at PNS Rahat laboratory. Material and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out from November 2006 to August 2007 at Department of Pathology, PNS Rahat, Karachi. Phlebotomy related data was collected from various blood collection tubes and associated request/authorization forms from...

Emergency service providers are supposed to locate ambulances such that in case of emergency patients can be reached in a timeefficient manner. Two fundamental decisions and choices need to be made real-time. First of all immediately after a request emerges an appropriate vehicle needs to be dispatched and send to the requests’ site. After having served a request the vehicle needs to be relocat...

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What are the forces obligating a plastic surgeon who is on-call for the emergency department to respond to a consultation request for repair of a simple laceration? Although the duties are clear in cases of obvious surgical emergency, ambiguity and subsequent conflict may arise when the true nature of the emergency is less clear. Does the consultant's clinical discretion dictate the obligation ...