self-referral
More than just a bed: mental health service users’ experiences of self-referral admission
... Inclusion criteria for the RCT were experience of periods of mental distress in patients with diagnosis of psycho- sis with or without substance abuse problems. Patients had to have an ongoing treatment relationship with ...
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Physician Self Referral and Imaging Use Appropriateness: Negative Cervical Spine MRI Frequency as an Assessment Metric
... imaging self-referral to overuse have focused on their inadequate consideration of use ...elderly), referral biases (eg, specialist versus primary care), diag- nostic interpretation inhomogeneity ...
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Self-referring patients at the emergency department: appropriateness of ED use and motives for self-referral
... predicting self-referral were identified via multivariate logistic regression using a backward elimination strategy on all patient characteristics with p > ...for self-referral ...
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Self-Referral and Serious Illness in Children With Fever
... whether self-referred children were seen by a GP (but not referred) before their presentation at the ...the self-referred group. Third, our interpretation that 1 in 4 self- referred children who ...
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Motives for self referral to the emergency department: a systematic review of the literature
... Large variations in reported percentages of reasons for self-referral between studies were found, reflected by wide prediction intervals and high levels of hetero- geneity. Subgroup analyses were performed ...
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Pregnant women’s self-referral and perspectives on the use of prenatal ultrasound in a low-resource setting
... Results: Of 198 participants, 182 (91.9%) reported performing obstetric ultrasound examination without doctor’s request. Determination of fetal viability (40.7%) was the commonest reason for self-referral ...
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Regulation of Physician Self-Referral Arrangements: Is Prohibition the Answer Or Has Congress Operated on the Wrong Patient
... (B) that are billed by the physician performing or supervising the services, by a group practice of which such physician is a mem- ber, or by an entity that is wh[r] ...
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Associations between self-referral and health behavior responses to genetic risk information
... single-item self-reports of behavior change and participant to social desirability biases ...whether self-referred or actively re- cruited, were highly educated volunteers with high socio- economic status, ...
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The Stark Reality: Is the Federal Physician Self-Referral Law Bad for the Health Care Industry
... The combination of FERA's increased exposure to False Claims Act liability, health care providers' inability to self-disclose if they discover a Stark Law violation, [r] ...
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Access to GP services supported by IT infrastructure readiness: Analysing publically available GP practice data
... The clustering algorithm identified five distinct clusters in our data set. The algorithm also identified deprivation (attribute number 1), A&E self-referral rate and patient experience (attributes ...
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Health Care of Physicians' Children
... Systematic differences in the care of phy- sicians’ children included delayed help seeking and in- creased self-referral to specialists by parents, and poor documentation of psychosocial[r] ...
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Access to GP services supported by IT infrastructure readiness: Analysing publically available GP practice data
... (d) ‘Maverick’: This cluster is the most mystifying of all five clusters. Patients registered at practices falling in this cluster have a fairly good experience of care at their local GP practice. The patient experience ...
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An investigation of factors associated with psychiatric hospital admission despite the presence of crisis resolution teams
... deliberate self harm were less likely than others to be admitted, while those at risk of violence or unintentional harm to self ...(i.e. self neglect or reckless behaviour) had higher admission ...
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Dementia ascertainment using existing data in UK longitudinal and cohort studies: a systematic review of methodology
... The exclusion criteria were: a Study population based outside the United Kingdom; b Articles published in non-English language; c Participant self-referral/other referral to studies foll[r] ...
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Independent determinants of prolonged emergency department length of stay in a tertiary care centre: a prospective cohort study
... Multivariable binary logistic regression analysis with backward entry of arrival type (self-referral or by ambu- lance), age, triage category, treating specialty, diagnostic testing, consultations, ...
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Use of complementary and alternative medicine and self tests by coronary heart disease patients
... The increasing availability of complementary and alterna- tive medicine (CAM) in the UK [6] has significant self- management implications for CHD patients. There is increasing evidence that CAM, particularly ...
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Who uses emergency departments inappropriately and when - a national cross-sectional study using a monitoring data system.
... were self-referred will have missed any inappropriate cases referred from primary care, telephone triage services or the ambulance service, while the exclusion of cases who left the ED before being treated or ...
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Impact of Self Stigma on Quality of Life of People with Mental Illness at Dilla University Referral Hospital, South Ethiopia
... Dilla University Referral Hospital (DURH). An institution based cross-sectional study was carried out on 317 mentally ill patients by using consecutive sampling techniques who were visiting DURH psychiatry clinic. ...
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Barriers of Referral System to Health Care Provision in Rural Societies in Iran
... governmental referral system According to the participants, the governmental referral system is not responsive to the needs of rural communities, ...
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Referral paths in the U.S. physician network
... the referral path features and network measures support the above models to beat random prediction while the accuracy is almost as good as that of other diagnosis ...of referral path features differs, which ...
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