A web-based electronic neurology referral system: A solution for an overburdened healthcare system?

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Williams, L ^a   O'Riordan, S ^a   McGuigan, C ^a   Hutchinson, M ^a   Tubridy, N ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CONSULTATION; DIZZINESS; ELECTRONIC NEUROLOGY REFERRAL SYSTEM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERNET; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; TREMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA BASE; HUMAN RELATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DATABASES AS TOPIC; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNET; IRELAND; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 84868238042     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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