Referral And Consultation

Fewer women received cardiology referrals during index hospitalization and poststroke cardiac monitoring compared with men, and women had shorter average hospital stays, a speaker reported.

The average wait time between a referral and neurologist visit was more than a month among older adults, with longer wait times for those with serious neurodegenerative conditions like MS, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease, new research shows.

PHILADELPHIA — Automatic referrals of eligible patients not already prescribed statins to a centralized pharmacy service via email increased prescriptions of any statin by 16 percentage points compared with usual care, a speaker reported.

Approximately one-quarter of patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction who are stable at 6 weeks after discharge are referred to an exercise program for cardiac rehabilitation, while less than 5% used it, researchers reported.

CHICAGO — A clinician level peer-to-peer consultation may increase use of and optimize guideline-directed medical therapy in patients with HFrEF hospitalized for any cause compared with usual care, a speaker reported.

Referrals for cardiac rehabilitation for eligible patients increased after internal medicine residents were exposed to an educational lecture and handout, a speaker reported.

A teledermatology program at the Cleveland Clinic resulted in a reduction in visits and diagnostic concordance comparable to previously reported findings, according to results published in Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.