Rationing breast reduction surgery
| Autor: | L F A R Rossi, R P Cole, N Horlock |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Letter Referral medicine.medical_treatment Mammaplasty MEDLINE Commission Health care rationing medicine Humans Surgery Plastic Referral and Consultation Health policy General Environmental Science Health Care Rationing business.industry Health Policy General Engineering Rationing General Medicine United Kingdom Surgery General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female Breast reduction business |
| Zdroj: | BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 314(7086) |
| ISSN: | 0959-8138 |
| Popis: | Editor—We are concerned with restricted access policies for breast reduction by health commissions described by Margaret Somerville.1 Certain health commissions request referral to other specialties before funding a plastic surgery consultation. We studied the rationale of patient selection by this method by examining the symptoms of patients whose outcome was determined by the health commission. Between February 1995 and January 1996, 58 patients from three health commissions with restricted access policies were referred by their general practitioners to Salisbury District Hospital for breast reduction. A … |
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