Most of the acupuncture patients (n = 110, 62%% of them), however, had been given the treatment by specialists, the majority of them orthopaedic surgeons.
33 Approximately half of the patients visited their general practitioners, 29% of nonresponders were retreated using another topical drug, and the rest were referred to a specialist; the majority (80%) of patients visiting a specialist (71% of nonresponders) were treated with phototherapy, some (19%) with conventional systemic treatment, and biologic drugs were used in very rare cases (1%).
However in case of specialist institution, majority (22%) of the cases were of RHD.
Out of 3,294 cases of NCDs in non-specialist institutions, majority (43%) were COPD, followed by CVD (40%), DM (12%) and cancer (5%) respectively.
That is, if a patient in a regional or remote area of Queensland needs to travel to see the specialist, the majority of the travel and accommodation costs are reimbursed by the state government.
The categorisation of patients takes place in an institutional context where power structures such as layperson-specialist, minority-majority, and sick-well are at stake [ 47].
The respondents were all uveitis specialists, and the majority had greater than 10 years of practice experience, likely indicating the respondent group had a high level of expertise in this subject area.
'GPs and other specialists' prescribed the majority of all psychotropic drugs across all educational groups (63 83%) (table 2).
If interpretation differed, images were discussed in a plenum of nuclear medicine specialists and the majority decision was binding.
Many of these practitioners were initially hospital-based specialists, and the majority of public health physicians did not have a public health background.
Beyond studies of utilization of specialist services, the majority of research has focused on understanding the factors that determine referrals to specialists by primary care physicians (PCPs) [ 10, 14- 21].
