5. Manage your referrals: How you treat a referral will determine whether that referral source will give you more referrals.
Future research should explore the impact of those initiatives on referral rates and the origin of specialist referrals in those jurisdictions.
Age, gender, ethnic origin, LOS, referral reason, and markers of acute physiological derangement did not impact on likelihood of admission to critical care.
A prospective study to measure both the frequency of TACs in this setting and the origin of referrals was undertaken.
Telepaediatric service records were reviewed to obtain the number of consultations, types of specialist services offered, videoconference time spent and origin of referrals.
For this study, cases were rejected if the patient's name was Italian to exclude tertiary referral cases of southern European origin (because of differences in the prevalence of HFE mutations).
For the years 2005 2007 we could retrieve data on the number of attended rape survivors, place of origin, treatment provided, referral rates and numbers of women rejected by their families and consequent successful reintegration.
Albania was the most common nationality or country of origin for all referrals, followed by Nigeria and Vietnam.
Controls were found to be representative of the entire TB cohort in terms of geographical region of origin and source of referral (data not shown).
In multivariate analysis adjusting for gender, age, region of origin, HIV serostatus, and source of referral we identified source of referral as the major predictor for delays in LTBI therapy (Table 2).
She also claims in the lawsuit that the DeVry Director of Admissions ordered her not to provide "informational materials or referrals to persons of Iraqi national origin or Middle-Eastern appearance".
