Sentence examples for referral courses from inspiring English sources

In the 1980s, Wooller set up referral courses in the United Kingdom costing £500, which were offered on a "no pass no fee" basis provided the student had completed a 200-hour work programme and a minimum of 10 tests.

Attendance for the 29,326 referral courses is shown in Figure 1.

Data from 29,326 referral courses (99%) were included in the final analyses.

In the present analysis over 54% of commenced referral courses were completed.

The complete dataset contained 29,560 referral courses in which the patient commenced the referral by attending at least one WW meeting.

Data were obtained from the WW NHS Referral Scheme database for all referral courses started after 2nd April 2007 (when WW began recording objective weights for all commenced referrals) and ending before 6th October 2009, and were analysed by an independent research team.

Abbreviations: Late referral, course in a nephrology department ≤16 weeks; OR, odds ratio; 95 % CI, 95%% confidence interval.

Median weight at the start of the referral course was 94.3 kg (IQR 83.7 - 107.7 kg) and median start BMI was 35.1 kg/m2 (IQR 31.8 - 39.5 kg/m).

In patients completing a first referral course, median weight loss was 5.4 kg (5.6% initial weight), with more than half losing ≥5%.

Weight change by referral course number for an individual ('referral rank') is illustrated in Figure 2. Weight loss per course decreased with increasing rank, although later courses did result in small additional weight loss.

Data were analysed for all referrals attending a first meeting and for participants completing all 12 sessions of a first referral course during the audit period (completers only analysis).