We also saw a greater emphasis on assessment and referral meaning individuals were given the support they need to move away from homelessness towards independence and long-term well-being.
This may be attributable to the fact that most of the hospitals audited were referral centres, meaning a higher proportion of women with complications from other lower category hospitals would have been sent to these hospitals.
Patients have freedom to visit any type of healthcare provider, meaning referral from health centers and General Practitioners clinics is not required to visit medical centers.
Founded in 1993 with nine doctors and $4 million in patient revenues, MedPartners now has more than 9,000 doctors on its payroll and some 4,000 that are "affiliated," meaning they get referrals or guaranteed fees from the company.
Many referrals were regarded as unnecessary, meaning that the problem could be handled by the GP.
She was, he said, "a referral from a mutual friend," meaning a fix-up or blind date.
When comparing both scenarios, an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of 24,390 €/QALY was obtained, meaning that timely dialysis referral might be an efficient alternative if a willingness-to-pay threshold of 45,000 €/QALY is considered.
The exponentiated coefficient for FD was 0.54 (95% CI 0.42 0.70); p < 0.0001), meaning that the adjusted arithmetic mean of the number of post-referral bed days was 46% lower among those home treated.
In the Netherlands the GP functions as the 'gatekeeper' of care, meaning that patients need a referral for specialist health care or for other primary health care workers [ 11].
Often, clinics are busy and lack privacy; staff have to undertake a number of tasks simultaneously, meaning that psychosocial assessment and referral may be neglected.
