Paper Title :Specialty Availability Predicts Inter Hospital Referral Pattern At A Metropolitan Community Hospital Emergency Room
Author :Zao Ming Shih
Article Citation :Zao Ming Shih ,
(2016 ) " Specialty Availability Predicts Inter Hospital Referral Pattern At A Metropolitan Community Hospital Emergency Room " ,
International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) ,
pp. 42-44,
Volume-2,Issue-4
Abstract : Community Hospital is the first line of defense to maintain the quality of primary health care, while transfer pattern
is one of the potential indicators to assess the quality of a community hospital. However, specialty availability at the
community hospital is incomplete, and emergency room transfer out frequently. Primary care quality needs may be
strengthened. But none in the literature talks about the relationship between specialty availability and referral pattern in
Community Hospital. The purpose of this paper is based on empirical data analysis of each specialty’s transfer out rate to make
predictions on the studied community hospital emergency room’s overall referral pattern. Research method uses logic
regression to predict degrees of impact on referral from each specialty regardless of availability. For statistics, the numbers of
patients referred as well as hospitalized from the emergency room each month and also the specialties demanded are collected
for a total of 1,624 samples between January and June of 2014. Empiric results suggest that there are still a few patients
hospitalized for observation in specialties unavailable and ordinarily expected a referral from Community Hospital such as
neurosurgery (NS), neurology (NEU) and infectious diseases (INF). This paper can be used as the basis for assessing the
influence of other transfer reasons on emergency room referral patterns in the future.
Index Terms— Community Hospitals, Emergency Room, Referral Pattern, Specialty Availability.
Type : Research paper
Published : Volume-2,Issue-4
DOIONLINE NO - IJMAS-IRAJ-DOIONLINE-4362
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