A UNIFIED HOSPITAL REFERRAL SYSTEM (UHRS): A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA
Abstract
Health care delivery is the duty of every hospital, while some hospitals are equipped with medical experts and cutting edge equipment some are not, this lack of experts and equipment in one hospital calls for the need of the referral of patient from one hospital to another. Base on the vast number of hospitals scattered around the country, locating and having access to these facilities in time remains a problem. Manual referral process is currently adopted by the hospital in finding and referral of patient to a higher facility for treatment, this takes a longer time for the paper process to be completed before actual referral is carried out, hence the need for a Unified hospital referral system (UHRS) in Nigeria. This paper proposes a UHRS system that will facilitate prompt referral.
Keywords: - Hospital, Patient, Unified Referral.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njt.v38i1.19
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