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Hindi Prevalence of Referral Rate from Primary Health Care Centers to King Abdulaziz Medical City in Western Region, Ministry National Guard-Health Affairs, 2020
*Corresponding Author: Muied Ali Alqarny, Department of Family Medicine, Ministry of Health, Taif University, Saudi Arabia, Tel: 0549788844, Email: maxmoied38@gmail.comReceived Date: Sep 20, 2020 / Accepted Date: Oct 16, 2020 / Published Date: Oct 20, 2020
Citation: Alqarny MA, Alsofiani AM (2020) Prevalence of Referral Rate from Primary Health Care Centers to King Abdulaziz Medical City in Western Region, Ministry National Guard-Health Affairs, 2020. J Community Med Health Educ 10:696.
Copyright: © 2020 Alqarny MA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Aim: Assessment of referral rate from Primary health care center (PHC) to main Hospital among patients visiting PHCs. Objectives: To measure the prevalence referral rate from PHCs to main hospital & other factors that could associated with referral rate.
Introduction: The referral is recognized as one of the most important option, proven to effectively reduce the time & resources in dealing with patients. Several authors have stressed the importance of good referral letters as the best mode of transmitting information to promote the understanding of a problem or patient.
Purpose: My work as a physician in the specialized polyclinic in the last 2 years gave me a great motivation to study different aspects of reference and factors which influence it.
Methodology: This study was conducted in 3 PHCs. Study population includes all NGHA patients referred to KAMC from PHCs. Various parameters related to reference were collected including age, gender, referring facility, referring physician, patient profession etc. SPSS 26 was used to calculated prevalence and correlations between acceptance (accepted, active, pending and rejected) and above f actors.
Results: Out of 18567, 1710 patients were referred from 3 PHCs to KAMC. The prevalence rate of reference was 9.24%.384 referred patients were included in the study.
Conclusions: The overall prevalence of reference rate was below 10%. There was a significant correlation found between elapsed days, title of referring physician, refer ring facility with acceptance rate.
