Sentence examples for delayed physician from inspiring English sources

Examples of such lapses included inadequate physical exams, delayed physician involvement and incomplete diagnostic and laboratory tests.

In contrast, CR programs perceived that the most common reasons for delays in access were patient unavailability for personal reasons, capacity and funding limitations, as well as delayed physician referral.

A survey of the Bertelsmann foundation (Healthcare Monitor) in spring 2004 (i.e. shortly after the introduction of the practice charge) shows: 55% of the insured say that the new fee has influenced their health care behaviour in some way, and among these 27% report delayed physician visits, while 35% avoided them completely and tried to cure themselves.

An experiment in Michigan in 2009 found that the presence of a distraught family witness (actually an actor) during a simulated cardiac arrest delayed physicians delivering vital defibrillation shocks.

It seems to be rather plausible, though, to assume that income has a causal effect on avoiding or delaying physician contacts due to the practice charge.

Apparently, people with a lower socio-economic status are more affected and clearly tend to avoid or delay physician visits because of the fee.

For instance, the probability of people with less than €6000 to avoid or delay physician contacts changes from 2.31 (model 1) to 2.32 (CI: 1.99 2.71).

It is also important to stress that the dummy variable 'no information on income' is not significantly related to avoiding or delaying physician contacts (OR = 1.24).

It can be assumed, however, that avoiding or delaying physician visits jeopardizes both, and that health inequalities are increasing due to the practice charge.

People under 30 years of age are more than three times (OR = 3.46, CI 2.72 4.39, β = 1.24, se = 0.12) more likely to avoid or delay physician visits because of the practice charge than people older than 70 years (model 1).

Those who assess their health status as being 'very good' avoid or delay physician contacts twice as often as those who say that their health is poor (OR univariate including all waves = 2.0, CI 1.74 2.27, β = 0.69, se = 0.07).