The Need for Referral Guidelines
Orthodontic Referral Guidelines
... The index of Orthodontic treatment need (IOTN) is used within the hospital department as a sieve for conditions requiring treatment. Patients in categories 1 and 2 will derive no clinical benefit from orthodontic ...
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Referral guidelines for suspected cancer
... ● In patients with features typical of cancer, investigations in primary care should not be allowed to delay referral. In patients with less typical symptoms and signs that might, nevertheless, be due to cancer, ...
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General Medicine Clinical Referral Guidelines
... ELIGIBILITY: Patients requiring assessment, management and diagnosis of: General Medical conditions requiring Physician input including: Heart Failure Services, Diabetes care, Endocrine conditions, Renal diseases All ...
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Child Maltreatment Medical Consultation - Referral Guidelines
... cases need to be transported to an appropriate sexual abuse/assault evaluation center with experience in evaluating sexually abused/assaulted children (a list for Maryland counties is attached) for an urgent ...
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SCHHS Referral Guidelines. Gastroenterology. February 2015
... may need to be repeated in cases of poor bowel preparation (immediate rescheduling), possible incomplete excision of a large polyp (often at three months) or the presence of multiple adenomas (≥10) to ensure ...
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Appendix 1 Orthodontic Referral Guidelines for referring practitioners
... may need to remain under review in order to allow facial growth to be completed before making a definitive treatment ...not need or decline jaw surgery will be referred back to the referring specialist ...
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Referral Guidelines for TB/HIV co-management. (First Edition)
... HIV Care patients who need TB treatment HIV-positive patients are at high risk for developing active TB. Many patients are diagnosed with HIV when they have advanced immune-suppression. They may have atypical ...
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Summary of the proceedings of the international forum 2016: “Imaging referral guidelines and clinical decision support - how can radiologists implement imaging referral guidelines in clinical routine?”
... The ACR Appropriateness Criteria® required more than 20 years of work to develop, included the input of hundreds of multi-specialty-based clinical experts and almost 6000 lit- erature references that are constantly ...
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Lung transplantation in South Africa: Indications, outcomes and disease-specific referral guidelines
... Procedure type A lung transplant can involve the implantation of one or both lungs. Bilateral lung transplants – essentially sequential single lung transplants with anastomoses at the mainstem bronchi – are performed ...
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Can guidelines improve referral to elective surgical specialties for adults? A systematic review
... identified need, thus restraining healthcare ...in referral rates from primary to secondary care, indicating that access to surgery is not ...the referral of common conditions to surgical specialties ...
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Development and implementation of blood pressure screening and referral guidelines for German community pharmacists
... In developed countries, nearly 1 in 3 adults have hypertension and another 1 in 5 are undiagnosed. 2-5,15 In Germany, approximately 13% of women and 18% of men aged 18 to 79 years have uncon- trolled high BP (≥140/90 mm ...
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guidelines: the NICE guidelines on referral for suspected cancer
... the support and information needs for people with suspected cancer (Box 3). The underlying research evidence on the support and information needs of people who are being referred with suspected cancer is very limited. ...
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RBH GUIDELINES FOR ULTRASOUND REFERRAL
... We understand that there are relatively few occasions when a patient might need an ultrasound to be performed urgently within 24-48 hours, and not be admitted, but we do aim to offer this service. Obesity. As with ...
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Guidelines for Referral Health Care in Lebanon. Standard Operating Procedures
... Should patients require transfer to another hospital within the network due to unavailability of services, the referring hospital should inform the TPA of the need for transfer. The referring hospital should ...
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Glaucoma-service provision in Scotland: introduction and need for Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network guidelines
... facilitating referral based on a specific electronic glaucoma referral form (Figure 3) that includes all informa- tion required for a comprehensive glaucoma-screening and diagnosis service together with the ...
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Ophthalmology Referral Guidelines
... access referral form if pt has a less than 3 month history of visual loss, spontaneously reported distortion and/or onset missing patch/blurring in central ...
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REFERRAL GUIDELINES: NEUROSURGERY
... If you are concerned about the delay of the outpatient appointment or if there is any deterioration in the patient’s condition, please contact the Neurosurgery Registrar on call on 9076 2000. The referral is ...
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Imaging referral guidelines in Europe: now and in the future—EC Referral Guidelines Workshop Proceedings
... Imaging Referral Guidelines in ...of Referral Guidelines in ...on Referral Guidelines from a national ...of Guidelines, followed by the experience from a number of ...
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Pediatric Neurology Referral Guidelines
... Neurology Referral Guidelines The CHOC Children’s Specialists Neurology Division at CHOC Children’s and UCI Medical Center is available for consultation 24 hours a day, seven days a week and provides ...
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Inpatient Rehab Referral Guidelines
... to ensure that rehab referrals are submitted in a timely and appropriate manner to minimize the number of days that patients are waiting in Alternate Level of Care (ALC). Application of each and every component of these ...
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