We calculated the degree of each hospital's orthopaedic specialisation by building on methods developed for identification of physician owned specialty hospitals.
The identification of a physician lead, or physician liaison for occupational therapy was seen as an important strategy to enhance physician understanding and champion the occupational therapy discipline within the Family Health Team.
A list of eligible physicians was generated using the American Medical Association Physician Profile Database of general internists, as well as identification of practicing physicians at Departments of Internal Medicine for the medical schools in each of the five study locations in the United States Atlantaa, GA; Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA Philadelphia, PA and Baltimorere, MD).
An alternative explanation could be that with the identification of obesity, physicians scheduled more frequent evaluations of the patients.
This resulted in the identification of 25 physician owned specialty hospital, 8 non physician owned specialty hospitals; and uncertain ownership for seven specialty hospitals.
In addition, identification and leverage of physicians' strengths were seen as an opportunity for knowledge translation and transferring best practices.
The use of protocols for identifying and treating victims of abuse has been found to increase the identification of victims by physicians [ 28].
Various interventions have been adopted to reduce unnecessary LOS, including discharge planning and programs favoring transfer to community services, care pathways, reminders to sensitise clinicians, periodical audits to identify and act upon reasons for delays, use of checklists for admission planning, identification of motivated reference physicians.
The qualitative interviews allowed the identification of specific typologies of physicians dedicated exclusively to private practice: the NGO worker, the foreign physician with minimum links with national health authorities, and the senior physician who left the national health system; the latter was the dominant type in Bissau and Maputo.
