Sentence examples for measures referral from inspiring English sources

Factor analysis, using varimax rotation was undertaken for the two referral measures (referral familiarity and referral practice) assessed by the nursing questionnaires for each BPG [ 19].

If patients do not respond sufficiently to these nonoperative measures, referral to an orthopedic surgeon for evaluation for (arthroscopic) subacromial decompression is recommended [ 4].

To measure referral quality, it therefore seems necessary to focus more on measuring the informational quality of referrals than on measuring their structure.

"We can measure referrals to the office, sick days, whatever it might be.

The study cohort included 261 patients with 3 available measures: (1) referral cytology; (2) HRA cytology; and (3) HRA directed biopsy.

Core components, standards and outcome measures for referral and delivery.

Unfortunately, most research relies on two main outcome measures – physician referral rates and patient utilization.

About 42% had low confidence in identifying abnormal labour patterns, and 53% in providing life-saving measures before referral.

For all three measures the referral wait showed a highly significant improvement, with decreasing waiting times and an increasing proportion meeting the 2-week target.

Main outcome measures were referral rate, cancer detection rate (CDR, defined as the number of cancers detected per 1000 women screened), sensitivity and specificity of mammography screening, positive predictive value (PPV) of referral and tumour stages of screen detected cancers at different screening strategies.

The inclusion criteria were severe pain and chronic duration of more than three months, pain unresponsive to conventional medical measures, written referral from physicians or doctors of chiropractic explicitly to NT. Patients with improvement of pain who started on additional therapy during the study period for a reason other than pain were excluded in order to avoid a potential bias.