Sentence examples for priority guideline from inspiring English sources

The hospital must respond within 2 weeks and, if the referral is about a condition that should receive priority treatment, the patient should receive a fixed date for treatment or examination within the timeframe given in the relevant priority guideline.

The challenge is to correctly specify the codes of the conditions in the priority guidelines.

However, this proposition met with vigorous opposition [ 13, 14] and the Swedish priority guidelines from 1996 thus far remain unchanged.

Norway introduced 32 priority guidelines for elective health treatment in the specialist health service in the period 2008 9.

New Zealand's website for elective surgery provides information to the public about the booking system and clinical priority guidelines [ 15].

However, this will occur at the expense of vertical equity because then priority would be given to groups with lesser needs as defined by the national priority guidelines.

The Norwegian Directorate for Health directed the development of the priority guidelines for elective treatment in 32 distinct medical fields within the specialist health service.

The sensitivity of the referral information on diagnosis or condition was high compared with the discharge diagnosis for the 20 selected conditions from the 10 priority guidelines.

Of the specific conditions from 10 priority guidelines, 20 were selected for review for the period 2008 9 at 4 hospitals in Norway.

In all, 1854 medical records were reviewed concerning 20 conditions selected from 10 priority guidelines, to give a broad insight into hospital referrals (Table  1).

The ICD-10 diagnoses per disease or condition were given in retrospect by clinicians who participated in the expert groups developing the priority guidelines.