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Referral patterns of children with glaucoma and their caretakers in Northern Tanzania [PDF]

International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020
"AIM: To describe the referral patterns of children with primary childhood glaucoma (PCG) or secondary childhood glaucoma (SCG) and their presenting symptoms in Northern Tanzania. METHODS: A retrospective observational study of children 0.48, better eye)
Achim Fieß, Furahini Godfrey, Alexander K. Schuster, Richard Bowman, Heiko Philippin   +4 more
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DDMIA: Distributed Dynamic Mutual Identity Authentication for Referrals in Blockchain-Based Health Care Networks

IEEE Access, 2022
Patients go to multiple healthcare providers for treatment, and their health data is generally distributed among providers. The distributed health data and the decentralized health care system structure make it ideal for blockchain-based health ...
Manjunath Hegde, Rohini R. Rao, B. M. Nikhil   +2 more
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Socioeconomic characteristics and health outcomes in Sami speaking municipalities and a control group in northern Norway [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2012
Objectives. The Sami people constitute an ethnic minority in northern Norway. The objectives of this study were to compare municipalities with a majority of Sami in the population and a control group with regard to socioeconomic factors and health ...
Jan Norum, Carsten Nieder
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Japan Trial in High-Risk Individuals to Enhance Their Referral to Physicians (J-HARP)—A Nurse-Led, Community-Based Prevention Program of Lifestyle-Related Disease

Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
Background: It is uncertain whether health counselling after community-based health checkups for high-risk individuals of lifestyle-related disease enhances their referral to physicians.
Midori Noguchi, Sumi Kojima, Toshimi Sairenchi, Minako Kinuta, Miyae Yamakawa, Hitoshi Nishizawa, Mitsuyoshi Takahara, Hironori Imano, Akihiko Kitamura, Toshiko Yoshida, Ayumi Shintani, Isao Saito, Tetsuji Yokoyama, Iichiro Shimomura, Hiroyasu Iso   +14 more
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Managing Local Health System Interdependencies: Referral and Outreach Systems for Maternal and Newborn Health in Three South African Districts

Systems, 2023
In complex health systems, referral and outreach systems (ROS) are formal strategies for connecting and managing interdependencies between facilities in service delivery pathways.
Helen Schneider, Solange Mianda, Willem Odendaal, Terusha Chetty   +3 more
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Referral conditions for severe road traffic injuries and their influence on the occurrence of hospital deaths in Benin

Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2022
Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death by trauma. Delays in in first aid due, inter alia, to the long time to transfer traffic accident victims to hospital and the lack of pre-hospital emergency care, contribute to the increase in hospital
Bella Hounkpe Dos Santos, Yolaine Glele Ahanhanzo, Alphonse Kpozehouen, Donatien Daddah, Edgard-Marius Ouendo, Yves Coppieters, Alain Leveque   +6 more
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Analysis of Therapeutic Decisions for Infantile Hemangiomas: A Prospective Study Comparing the Hemangioma Severity Scale with the Infantile Hemangioma Referral Score

Children, 2022
Background: In view of the high incidence of infantile hemangioma (IH) in infants and young children, a comprehensive and reasonable evaluation scale for referral is urgently needed. This study compared the influence of the Hemangioma Severity Scale (HSS)
Tong Qiu, Kaiying Yang, Shiyi Dai, Siyuan Chen, Yi Ji   +4 more
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Impact of the Emergency Department Medical Consortium Model on Patients in Intensive Care Units at Downstream Hospitals

Xiehe Yixue Zazhi, 2023
Objective  To evaluate the impact of the 'point to downstream hospital multi-department' emergency medical consortium model between Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) and Beijing Longfu Hospital on the treatment of critically ill patients ...
JIANG Hui, HAN Mengmeng, XU Jun, ZHU Huadong, LIU Jihai, YU Xuezhong, SUN Jia, LU Yanli, SHI Di   +8 more
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Does the source of referral affect the outcomes of testicular torsion?

Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2020
Introduction: This single-center study retrospectively analyzed the intra-operative findings relative to the source of referral of patients with testicular torsion by the urologist in a tertiary teaching hospital.
Sadiq Abu, T Atim, K O Obiategwu, I O Okpako, F E Magnus   +4 more
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A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Interventions to Promote Referral; Adherence; and Uptake of Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

International Journal of COPD, 2023
Jane S Watson,1,2 Rachel E Jordan,1 Lucy Gardiner,3 Peymane Adab,1 Kate Jolly1 1Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK; 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, St George’s NHS Trust, London, UK; 3School of Sport ...
Watson JS, Jordan RE, Gardiner L, Adab P, Jolly K   +4 more
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