A provider which met all four of those conditions could be rewarded by being able to offer "additional or designated services" for additional fees (presumably), as well as "traffic prioritisation," which is what the original NYT story maintained.
The data showed that self-perceived health status -as a proxy measure of need- is the most important contributor to the utilization variance for three of the designated services (private physician, emergency departments and hospital admissions), a finding which is consistent with many previous studies [ 1- 7].
While this may be seen as a logical solution especially if the assessing professional will be responsible for the subsequent care of the patient it leaves scope for disagreement between professionals about the suitability of the patient for the designated service, which can block or delay transfers and has potential to expose the individual clinician to legal challenge.
Survival analysis for combatants in their designated service was performed using PROC LIFETEST (a standard SAS routine).
The Secretaries of the Military Departments and the USD(P&R) may establish eligibility not specifically provided by statute for critical mission-related health care services for designated members of the Armed Forces, such as Reserve Component members not in a present duty status.
Other frequent themes include tradition and historical perspective, service for designated communities, and benchmarking to accreditation standards.
The expanded area would be designated for services in which women could participate on an equal footing with men, as is customary in Reform and Conservative congregations.
Luxe, for example, offers a designated driver service for customers too impaired to drive their cars home.
The inclusion criteria for control native patients are the same as migrants: thus, all native patients consecutively presenting a first-episode psychosis and admitted to the designated psychiatric services for each study centre in the recruitment period (1 January 2012 31 December 2013) will be recruited as controls.
According to co-founder Craig Sher, the idea for providing a designated driver service is hardly new.
