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Please explain what does urgent referral mean?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

I researched this to: make sure that you got an accurate response. What I learned is that "Urgent Referral or Consult" means very different things in different systems. "Urgent" may refer to non-emergency treatment for illness or injury within 24 hours. In some emergency departments - "urgent" referral from a specialist may be defined as potentially life or limb-threatening condition which needs to be seen within

Answered 9/23/2017

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