The police officer who gained the trust of Amanda Hutton tried to secure effective help and support in response to the domestic violence which included referral to housing and specialist advice services.
Roughly one third (31%) of the measures were derived from chart reviews, which included referral letters, paper and electronic medical records, and referral logs maintained by office managers.
Depending on their classification, they were then either sent on the 'HAART pathway' (which included referral for appointments with MD/MOs, social workers and other treatment support staff) or scheduled to return to the CD4 nurse for periodic monitoring until deemed HAART-eligible based on clinical and/or laboratory parameters.
Only 46% of agencies providing residential treatment programs reported having a strategy to shorten wait times, which included referrals to community treatment.
The initial diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is made in a number of clinical settings, which include referrals to a specialist because of a constellation of symptoms and/or abnormal laboratory findings.
This health structure is supported by a referral system which includes regional referral hospitals (which have a mental health unit, that should be staffed by a psychiatrist) and the national tertiary referral hospital at Butabika located in the capital city of Kampala [ 2, 3, 17].
The French draft resolution before the security council, which ambitiously includes referral of the Syrian conflict to the international criminal court and "further necessary measures" in the event of Syrian non-compliance with inspections, is already overtaken by the diplomacy in Geneva which, given Russia's lead, effectively excludes these measures.
These frameworks take a holistic view of health care, which includes households, community, referral systems and health care facilities.
However, little is known about the actual level of GP involvement in this pathway, which now also includes referral of patients who come into the referral pathway through the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.
Patients who are transferred into Harare City from another district carry with them a transfer out form from the referral district, which includes details such as patient name, referral hospital and district, sex, age, treatment category, type of TB and transfer-out date.
