Background and purpose: Health care system is organized at three levels in order to increase efficacy and effectiveness and create justice and also people availability. Considering the three levels of primary health care, access of people to specialized services through referral system is possible. With regard to the importance of referral system in family physician program, this study was perf...

Introduction: Many people from different parts of the country become ill yearly. The process that patients follow to each medical service, confines the type of referral. This study is a review in referral method and efficacy of that in Fars province of Iran. Methods: This study was performed cross-sectional on 4101 hospitalized patients in medical university hospitals in 2000. The information...

 Barriers to the Implementation of a Referral System in Hospitals in the Health Reform Plan: Shafa Hospital in Kerman Aidin Aryankhesal 1, 2, Farzaneh Mahmoudi Meymand 3 * 1Department of Health Services Management, School of Management and Medical Information,  Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Scien...