The phrase "mode of referral" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the method or way in which someone or something is referred to or recommended to someone else. Example: The doctor discussed the various modes of referral for the patient, including a specialist consultation or testing at a different facility.
Outcome Measures: Mode of referral, area, and nature of the complaints; related to the chief complaint: previous treatments, examinations, type of referral, days lost at work, level of pain, and treatment expectations.
The clinical data recorded included age at diagnosis, sex, mode of referral, final surgical treatment and adjuvant therapy.
Programme factors included mode of referral, implementation in local contexts, and support for participants to maintain change.
Information was also requested on mode of referral, knowledge of breast cancer and its inheritance, psychological status and details of what services and information was sought from the consultation.
The dominant mode of referral by patients in our study was self-referral through the A&E Department; this supports findings from one other study that reported most patients with tuberculosis at one London hospital being admitted acutely ill via self-presentation to the A&E Department, most previously undiagnosed [ 22].
First, at ER the attending physician filled a chart on clinical routine data (clinical characteristics and diagnoses, degree of alcohol consumption, trauma, mode of referral and discharge, whether patient was accompanied by relatives or friends, and need for inpatient treatment) for each patient meeting the inclusion criteria.
The responsibilities and activities of the involved professionals and case manager are formalized in agreed protocols with predefined modes of referral and collaboration.
The survey also asked about the N/HMPs' attitudes to integration and N/HMPs' modes and rates of referral to a range of conventional health care practices.
This indicates that the GP-assessed severity of symptoms influences the diagnostic interval more than the GP's choice of referral mode.
Given the commonest reported mode of presentation was self-referral, the focus on hastening patient attendance would lie with improving patient awareness of the features of AES and encouraging families to attend hospital promptly.
Mode of presentation, speciality of initial referral, treatment by specialist, time intervals for key points in the referral pathways were analyzed.
