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Background: Electronic referral (eReferral) from community into public secondary healthcare
services was introduced to 30 referring general medical practices and 28 hospital based …

Objectives: Poor outpatient referral communication is an important quality and safety issue.
We implemented an electronic referral tool to analyze its impact on communication between …

BACKGROUND Poor communication between referring clinicians and specialists may lead
to inefficient use of specialist services. San Francisco General Hospital implemented an …

Introduction: Electronic referral (eReferral) systems have been designed with the dual
purpose of decreasing wait times and improving workflow efficiency. Evidence about the …

Long wait times for elective services are seen as one of the major challenges for Canadian
healthcare. Canadians report that they wait longer for specialists than citizens in other …

We would like to commend Rahman et al for their work highlighting the reasons for delays in
inpatient consultations. 1 The authors found that miscommunication between referring and …

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summary Three different, well established systems for e-referral were examined. They
ranged from a system in a single country handling a large number of cases (60,000 per …

Background The referral-consultation process can be difficult to navigate. Electronic
consultations (eConsults) can help streamline referrals by facilitating inter-provider …