Sentence examples for population referral from inspiring English sources

In our study population, referral to specialists was delayed since it took nearly 20 weeks.

Fatal outcome depends on many factors but care-seeking behaviour in the population, referral practices to hospitals, timely and adequate medical care and specific treatment, the underlying conditions on the patient and the virulence of the strains are the most important [ 30- 34].

Estimation of the true change in incidence is difficult from these data given alterations in population referral, potentially heightened clinician suspicion of NTM, and improved diagnostics, however our findings complement trends in other parts of the world that suggest increasing rates of NTM disease and species diversity [ 2, 3, 7].

The results of the multivariate analysis examining population referral to the DEC are illustrated in table 3. Again, lower income quintiles (quintiles 1, 2 and 3) experienced a significantly higher rate of referral to the DEC compared to upper income quintiles (quintiles 4 and 5).

Our study provided an opportunity to study risk factors in a population without referral center bias that can occur in centers specializing in NTM care.

It may then be used on strategic and tactical levels to determine (trends in) the hospital's patient population and referral function, to make managerial choices regarding hospital specialization, or to underpin reimbursement negotiations with healthcare insurance companies.

According to other studies [ 74] the sensitivity of HPV DNA test is higher than the sensitivity of cytology; however, in our case a special small population for referral to colposcopy is involved, in contrast to the generic population used in the ATHENA study.

In our population, these referrals are rare.

Kenema and Western area have large urban and rural populations and referral hospitals.

It is then not surprising that these rural populations perceived referral in the formal system as a proof of failure.

These differences in rates from what is expected from the published literature may be explained by the fact that most previous studies were conducted in high-risk populations in referral hospitals.