Sentence examples for tertiary appointment from inspiring English sources
All retained intervention children attended the tertiary appointment and their general practitioner for at least one (mean 3.5 (SD 2.5, range 1-11)) weight management consultation.
All intervention children attended a tertiary appointment with a paediatrician and dietician specialising in childhood obesity, followed by up to 11 (mean 3.5 (SD 2.5)) general practice consultations over the following year, supported by shared-care web-based software.
Intervention Children were randomly allocated to one tertiary appointment followed by up to 11 general practice consultations over one year, supported by shared care, web based software (intervention) or "usual care" (control).
*Data collected only from intervention arm children at tertiary clinic appointment ("baseline").
The benefits of shared care included improved service accessibility, increased patient compliance, increased likelihood of patients completing treatment, reduced travel costs for patients able to access treatment locally, and reduced demand on tertiary clinics for appointments [ 10, 11].
In particular, this might be the reason many patients who wished diagnostic procedures requested an appointment in a tertiary care outpatient clinic.
Participants completed the FAI and EQ-5D via telephone interview with a research assistant (PL) seven days prior to an eight week post discharge outpatient review appointment at a tertiary hospital.
There will also be a number of patients referred who do not attend appointments at either tertiary centre.
In the pre-ART period 65 patients (31%) made an unscheduled primary-care visit, 19 (9%) had attended a secondary care clinic and 14 (7%) had appointments at the tertiary level.
Approximately two months after enrolment, intervention children attended a one hour appointment with a specialist tertiary weight management service at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.
An appointment was then made at a tertiary hospital for suspected subjects to accept standard examinations for glaucoma diagnosis.
