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What is the purpose of a referral in healthcare?
What is the purpose of a referral in healthcare?
- To initiate patient care
- To ensure a continuum of care (correct)
- To terminate patient care
- To avoid patient care
What does a referral process entail?
What does a referral process entail?
- Miscommunication between health professionals
- Disconnection between health professionals
- Communication between health professionals (correct)
- No communication between health professionals
What type of services does a referral involve?
What type of services does a referral involve?
- Direct patient care and support services (correct)
- Only transport and communication
- Only direct patient care
- None of these services
What does a referral mean for the care of a patient?
What does a referral mean for the care of a patient?
What type of arrangement is a 'vertical' referral?
What type of arrangement is a 'vertical' referral?
Referral is a two way process and ensures that a continuum of care is maintained to patients or clients. It is done from the community to the ______ care health service and to hospitals and within hospitals and vice versa.
Referral is a two way process and ensures that a continuum of care is maintained to patients or clients. It is done from the community to the ______ care health service and to hospitals and within hospitals and vice versa.
The referral process begins by the referring health professional communicating to the receiving health professional or ______ relevant patient information.
The referral process begins by the referring health professional communicating to the receiving health professional or ______ relevant patient information.
The receiving health professional communicates back to the referring health professional with information and plan for continuum of care thereby completing the ______ process.
The receiving health professional communicates back to the referring health professional with information and plan for continuum of care thereby completing the ______ process.
A referral may be for temporary, permanent or partial transfer of responsibility for the care of a ______.
A referral may be for temporary, permanent or partial transfer of responsibility for the care of a ______.
Referral can be vertical as in the hierarchical arrangement of the health services from the ______.
Referral can be vertical as in the hierarchical arrangement of the health services from the ______.
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