It is also important that referring physicians (e.g. neurologists and GPs) proactively recall this knowledge when they advise and refer patients to a physiotherapist.
Several respondents specifically referred to the need to educate doctors in primary care settings to proactively asses and manage liver disease risk factors, and also to refer such patients to centers of excellence in hepatology and liver cancer.
Despite the limitations of the system, the physicians proactively used their professional linkages to seek advice and also to refer patients to the referral center based on their experience and the facilities that they trusted.
Despite the limitations of the existing PHC system, a number of physicians in this study reported proactively using their professional linkages, experiences, and relationships to seek information and refer patients.
In the present study, with assistants from general practitioners and nurses in the clinics to identify smokers and refer them to the program, it was feasible for us to recruit smokers proactively in primary health settings.
Some participants reported how they had planned to manage this proactively, pre-empting questions, arranging personal reviews, and sometimes referring to another member of the primary care team.
"Last week, we proactively announced changes to our arbitration policies," the spokesperson said, referring to Uber's announcement that it would no longer make Uber riders, drivers, or employees deal with sexual assault or harassment claims through arbitration.
Previous work has shown that professionals who work holistically and proactively are better able to anticipate a child's needs, referring for specialist intervention before a critical need arises.
"We've been doing it ever since our infamous Feb. 14th debacle because we found that it's easier and healthier for the system to proactively cancel those flights rather than leaving it to chance," said Mateo Lleras, a spokesman for JetBlue, referring to the Valentine's Day snowstorm in 2007 that stranded thousands of passengers, with some stuck on planes for hours.
"We should think proactively in determining our fate, as no doubt the folks in Armonk are doing," Ms. Bates wrote in the report, referring to I.B.M.'s headquarters in Armonk, N.Y.
