Sentence examples for function as gatekeepers from inspiring English sources

General practitioners and internists frequently function as gatekeepers, deciding which patients must be referred to the cardiologist.

But then, having finally fulfilled their basic function as gatekeepers, they immediately denature their own efforts by softening language to the consistency of boiled linguine.

Food sensory information is relayed via the 5-HT circuit and the ASI neurons, which function as gatekeepers of the extent of body fat loss via regulating FLP-7 release.

To exclude economic relations with individuals or groups from the ambit of 'economic relations with … third countries' would be to ignore a basic reality of international economic life: that the governments of most countries do not function as gatekeepers for the economic relations and activities of each specific entity within their borders.

Reducing medical and nursing staff appears to reduce the capacity of EDs to provide timely assessments and care and to function as gatekeepers of the hospital.

Of course, Landesman is only one player in a competitive culture where powerful, white men ― whether artists, dealers, curators, publishers or collectors ― function as gatekeepers who can "make or break" the young and vulnerable. .

The nurses in our study functioned as gatekeepers as to whether they would share medical information and knowledge about the new resident with the other nursing staff.

To be referred to a headache specialist in Denmark and Spain, patients need (Table 2) referral by their GP who function as gatekeeper.

Some specialists said that they could respect the primary position of the GP and his or her function as gatekeeper to the other levels of health care.

Functioning as gatekeepers was not entirely new for them.

For the planning of fieldwork, Renewable World3 and the Biogas Sector Partnership (BSP-Nepal)4 functioned as gatekeepers.