Patients are coded by serial number with their sex, age, source of referral, date of consultation, location of consultation, symptoms and risk factors.
For each consultation entry we determined who was seen/encountered (from the name of the person who made the entry; eg a doctor or receptionist's name), the consultation location (from the consultation type field; eg "GP surgery", "path lab").
For each subject, demographic information (gender, date of birth, date of death, postal code), diagnoses, caregiver relationship (for example, spouse, daughter, son, friend), primary reason for referral (pain, other symptom management, patient or family support, staff support, home consultation), location of death and program transition data were extracted from the PCP database.
The DCE will quantify trade-offs the public is prepared to make between the key characteristics of an emergency service differentiated according to the severity of condition (eg, waiting times, clinician versus nurse led consultations, service location, hospital or primary care clinic setting) which will inform the development of strategies for optimising appropriate ED utilisation.
(T23) The respondents pointed out the importance of low threshold services, i.e. services without charges that are easy to reach (via consultation hours, location, phone or email), promptly available and proactive, as well as specific training of the help-providers in care for victims of traumatization to reduce barriers in the actual process of help-seeking.
Available health facility characteristics included: number of yearly general outpatient consultations, rural/urban clinic location, level of health facility (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary), and mental health staffing (number of psychiatric technicians, psychologists, or psychiatrists).
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"It would be ahistorical to be optimistic," says Sam Sims at the Centre for London, which is leading the Adonis commission, "but there is now overwhelming support for a crossing in this location". Consultation conducted last year by TfL found that 71% of residents in surrounding boroughs are in favour.
She still works with families, and does consultations in both locations and in New York as well.
Process issues, such as satisfaction with consultation waiting time, location, duration of counselling sessions, and type of service provider, have been examined in a number of studies (Shiloh et al, 1990; Bernhardt et al, 2000; Brain et al, 2000; Metcalfe et al, 2000; Wilson et al, 2000; Holloway et al, 2004; Pieterse et al, 2005a, 2005b).
