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Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Analyses were stratified by the number of consultations in the last 12 months: between 1 and 5 or over 5 consultations. Organizational factors including estimation of demand and supply, use of a referral algorithm, and strategies to optimize consultations were associated with a better experience of care.

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Q&A: How to Avoid Finance Regulatory Claims

Physician's Weekly

However, the definition of a kickback is wider and includes offering, paying, soliciting, or receiving anything of value to induce or reward referrals and once you start paying a portion of the revenue that you gained from new referrals as a result of the marketer’s work to the marketers it can be seen as payment for the generation of referrals.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And so we do have consultants who come in the building.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. But what we wanted to do was to control for regional … what’s that called? Market factors that may influence hospital transfers and feeding tube use.