All integrated eCRs had the same core functionalities of referral management/tracking and the possibility of bi-directional communication for all referrals.
In short, health system factors are considered to include facility staffing levels and skills mix, availability of work equipment and drugs, state of infrastructure, functionality of the referral system, and so on.
These systems rely upon specialist review of every request for specialty expertise, thereby leveraging the functionalities of both electronic referral and electronic consultation systems for the delivery of specialty care.
In 1992 Burkina Faso introduced the training of GP-BES (including C-section) to ensure functionality of district hospitals as the first referral level of its health system [ 12].
All those functions – the £100 functionality of a satnav, the £500 functionality of a video camera – have been rolled into, swallowed by, smartphones.
A pattern of referral restrictions being repeated across the country.
The first hypothesis predicting greater ease of referral in the other-referral condition compared to self-referral was confirmed.
In Victoria the rate of referral was 93%.
Four patients were smokers at the time of referral.
