Barriers to uptake of referral services from secondary care to tertiary care and its associated factors in L V Prasad Eye Institute network in Southern India: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine barriers to the uptake of referral services from secondary care centres to higher level tertiary care centres.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Secondary care hospital in Khammam District in the Telangana state of India.

Participants

Nine hundred and three patients who were referred from a secondary care centre to tertiary care centres between June 2011 and December 2012, were over the age of 18 and lived within 50 km of the secondary care centre were identified. Six hundred and sixteen (68.2%) of these patients were successfully contacted, and 611 (99%) of those contacted consented to participation in the study.

Interventions

Those who attended at higher centres after referral (compliant) and those who failed to attend (non-com

SUBMITTER: Khanna RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042616 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature