Disease relevance of Referral and Consultation

• Verapamil to reverse supraventricular tachycardia without hospital referral [1].
• METHODS: During 1995, all patients with suspected CNS infections admitted to a referral hospital in southern Vietnam were investigated by culture, PCR, and antibody measurement in serum and CSF for dengue and other viruses [2].
• SETTING: Intensive care unit of a referral hospital in Brisbane, Australia. PATIENTS: 37 patients having elective repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm or having aortobifemoral grafting; 18 received dopamine, and 19 received placebo [3].
• PATIENTS AND METHODS--All 22 patients (including four with pheochromocytoma) evaluated at a major military referral hospital with the clonidine suppression test for suspected pheochromocytoma for more than 6 years were retrospectively reviewed [4].
• OBJECTIVE: To determine if a single time point estimation of chondroitin sulphate (CS) or keratan sulphate (KS) epitopes, hyaluronan (HA), or total glycosaminoglycans (GAG) in knee synovial fluid at time of hospital referral can predict subsequent radiographic progression of knee osteoarthritis [5].

High impact information on Referral and Consultation

• SETTING: Large, urban, university-affiliated referral hospital [6].
• RESULTS: Smoothed, unadjusted rates of left ventricular ejection fraction documentation ranged from 30.1% to 67.2% and of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor prescription from 55.8% to 87.1% among hospital referral regions; regional patterns were apparent [7].
• SETTING: A tertiary care referral hospital and a major teaching affiliate of Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass. RESULTS: Of 29 consecutive patients enrolled, 17 (19 limbs) completed the 6 months of study [8].
• SETTING: A university hospital referral setting INTERVENTION: Patients were generally treated for 8 weeks with tetrathiomolybdate, followed by zinc maintenance therapy [9].
• METHODS: Patients with luminal IBD under the care of a gastroenterologist who sought a a second opinion at Brigham and Women's Hospital between January 2001 and April 2003 were enrolled in this study [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of Referral and Consultation

• OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of renal AA amyloidosis and its association with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a cohort of all renal biopsies at one referral hospital and to measure the effect of a monthly pulse of cyclophosphamide on renal function and survival in these RA patients [11].
• Paul's Hospital, a 450-bed tertiary referral hospital affiliated with the University of British Columbia. PATIENTS: All ICU patients who received vasopressin for treatment of severe septic shock between August 5, 1997, and March 21, 1999 [12].
• During a 5-year period, 280 of 2010 patients admitted to the meningitis ward of a referral hospital in Cairo, Egypt, were clinically diagnosed as having tuberculous meningitis and were treated with either antituberculous chemotherapy and dexamethasone or antituberculous chemotherapy alone [13].
• The influence of hyperbilirubinaemia on malaria-related mortality was explored among 1103 cases of acute, Plasmodium falciparum malaria at a referral hospital in Orissa, India. Most (64.3%) of the subjects investigated had > 1.2 mg bilirubin/dl serum and were therefore considered hyperbilirubinaemic [14].
• This study was undertaken to investigate the frequency of, indications for and appropriateness of glycopeptide prescription in a paediatric tertiary referral hospital and to assess the usefulness of the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) guidelines [15].

Biological context of Referral and Consultation

• METHODS: We studied 67 consecutive patients with primary AAS who visited the rheumatology clinic of a tertiary referral hospital [16].
• OBJECTIVE: We attempted to determine the safety, efficacy, and parental satisfaction of cantharidin therapy for MC in children who were treated in a pediatric dermatology clinic at a large referral hospital [17].
• Gene frequencies have been calculated from 6334 blood donors who were tested at a referral hospital in north India, for ABO & Rh and from > 350 donors who were tested for other blood groups [18].

Anatomical context of Referral and Consultation

• SETTING: Tikur Anbessa teaching and referral hospital, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of five years biopsy material from patients with thyroid disease [19].

Associations of Referral and Consultation with chemical compounds

• We aggregated risk-adjusted data on the 143,202 patients who survived through 1999 by Hospital Referral Region and merged this data with information on local physician supply and other regional characteristics [20].
• Second opinion on brevital [21].
• A second opinion about thyroid hormone treatment [22].
• METHODS: Two hundred consecutive patients undergoing diagnostic methacholine challenges in the pulmonary function laboratory of a tertiary-care, university-based referral hospital were studied [23].
• To observe the incidence of complications in severely hyponatraemic hospitalized patients and relate outcome to rate of correction, all patients admitted to a tertiary referral hospital in New York City, USA or a group of hospitals in Oxford, UK with a sodium < or = 120 mmol/l were studied [24].

Gene context of Referral and Consultation

• Over a 30-month period from July 1995 to December 1997, new detections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were prospectively studied in a tertiary referral hospital [25].
• Periodically, 3 or 5 lyophilized quality control materials with different activities of G6PD were sent to each referral hospital by speed post delivery in dry ice [26].
• METHODS: Ten CD patients on a strict gluten-free diet were diagnosed with type 1 RCD after extensive clinical evaluation in a tertiary referral hospital [27].
• SETTING: Pulmonary function laboratory at a tertiary referral hospital in northern India. PATIENTS: Six survivors of ARDS reporting for their first follow-up visit after discharge [28].
• In this report, we present an asymptomatic infant, seen for a second opinion, who was given the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (CF) as a neonate based on the presence of two mutant alleles, DeltaF508 and R117H [29].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Referral and Consultation

• This paper describes the experience of a tertiary pediatric referral hospital performing ultrasonography and DMSA scans in the assessment of renal scarring [30].
• SETTING: A specialized Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service of a tertiary referral hospital [31].
• The data are taken from the prospective cohort study "Men born in 1914" in Malmö, a city in southern Sweden with 220,000 inhabitants and a single referral hospital [32].
• Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for computed tomographic colonography (CTC) automatically detects the locations of suspicious polyps and masses on CTC and provides radiologists with a second opinion [33].

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