The seven items in GP considerations in current referrals were patient preferences, experiences of other patients, waiting lists, quality of care, specific treatment or techniques, patient travelling distance, and personal contact with a specialist.
Community enabling resources take into account the availability of health services in the community, the presence of a regular source of care, waiting times, quality of care, and users' satisfaction and perceptions of the provided care.
Remaining employees must often shoulder the burden of staffing shortfalls, and must assuage dissatisfied customers who become increasingly frustrated with long waits, quality lapses and inferior service.
The relevant sections of the guides covered the following topics: cost and payments associated with seeking health care, access to health providers, facilities and medical products, transportation and distance to facilities, perceived quality of health care (waiting times, perceived quality of drugs) and attitude of health workers, among others (see Additional file 1).
Criteria for the allotment of live-donor kidneys would be no different than the current system of cadaveric-organ distribution; that is, based on the length of time a patient has waited, the quality of the organ match and the direness of the patient's need.
"Even pirates will wait for quality.
An efficient and effective pharmacy clearly emerged as a central system-level facilitator, with numerous specific factors critical to patient adherence including order and delivery services, wait times, quality control, and being able to reach someone with questions or concerns.
In Nigeria, private maternity care was the preferred place of delivery because of the low quality of government facilities, particularly with respect to absence of staff, poor perceived quality, waiting times, and high costs (11).
The Yankees are better off waiting until a quality pitcher shakes free.
American mills are on hot idle waiting to produce quality steel for America's needs.
