Referral patterns: an audit into referral practice among doctors in emergency medicine

Referral patterns: an audit into referral practice among doctors in emergency medicine.

OBJECTIVES To develop a standard for safe patient referral from emergency medicine (EM) staff to hospital inpatient specialities; to audit adherence to that standard, and from this audit, to identify potential risk areas in this aspect of patient care; to make recommendations for reducing such risks; and to implement those recommendations. METHOD A standard was introduced and practice was com...

Referral patterns in elderly emergency department visits.

OBJECTIVE To assess elderly individuals' demand for emergency department (ED) care, in terms of the characteristics, processes, outcomes, costs by referral pattern. DATA SOURCE All ED visits involving patients aged 65 and older, extracted from the 2010 dataset of an Local Health Agency, in North-Eastern Italy (no. = 18 648). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Pati...

Referral practice among Swiss and non-Swiss walk-in patients in an urban surgical emergency department.

AIM To assess the relationship between nationality, gender and age and use of health services among patients visiting an urban university hospital emergency department (ED). INTRODUCTION ED crowding is an increasingly significant national and international problem. Overcrowding has many potential detrimental effects, including frustration for patients and ED personnel and greater risk of poor...

An audit of referral patterns for glioblastoma patients in Beaumont hospital

Patterns of Admissions to a Referral Skin Hospital in Iran

Background: Inpatient therapy in dermatology offers a number of advantages in several ways i.e. careful monitoring of patients’ conditions, improvement of their skin lesions under the supervision of trained staff, absence of domestic pressure and increasing the quality of patients’ life index. The objective of this study was to describe the patterns of admission for patients with dermatological...