Extracts from NCCIAS are received by HPS on a quarterly basis, with these data in this study based on linked referrals to the end of May 2013.
A main limitation to the generalisability of our results is related to the hospital based design and the recruitment of patients from several different clinical centres, both possible sources of bias linked with referral and selection.
For example, in Sierra Leone, it has been shown that equipping remote health facilities and traditional birth attendants with radio receivers linked to referral hospitals can shorten response times and reduce maternal deaths.
Our hypothesis was that if service and infrastructure component activities took place, we would expect that infected patients with HIV or syphilis would be treated and linked to referral services, which would eventually reduce transmission of these infections.
It is not the first, but it is perhaps the most visible example of a vision for vast interoperability and collaboration that extends far beyond mere referral linking.
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The mHealth system, but not the paper system, enabled a longitudinal follow up of each referral so that the back referral could be linked to the original referral and subsequent referrals to the same client.
Nationwide implementation of fax referral systems linking patients in clinics to local proactive quitlines offers a concrete strategy for assisting smokers.
The programme is upgrading 14 maternal and child health centres as basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care facilities (BEmONC) and linking them, with local referral hospitals, as comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care facilities.
Outside of the service days, referrals for these hard-to-get to services will be provided at the One Stop Shops, with the goal of strengthening the referrals network linking local service providers to community members.
