Crossword clues for referral
referral
- A recommendation to consult the (professional) person referred to
- The act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency)
- Job interviewee, sometimes
- Recommendation, in a way
- A person vouched for
- Buck passing, of a sort
- Asterisk's function
- Forwarding to an appropriate agency
- Recommendation to consult a professional
- Being passed on to a specialist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring. 2 (context slang English) A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral.
WordNet
n. a recommendation to consult the (professional) person referred to; "this patient is a referral from Dr. Bones"
the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency)
Wikipedia
In medicine, referral is the transfer of care for a patient from one clinician to another.
Tertiary care is usually done by referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel.
In the field of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), referral also means the informing of a partner of a patient diagnosed STD of the potential exposure. Patient referral is where patients directly inform their partners of their exposure to infection. An alternative is provider referral, where trained health department personnel locate partners on the basis of the names, descriptions, and addresses provided by the patient to inform the partner.
Usage examples of "referral".
Nick picked up the agenda for 1979 and skimmed through the pages, finding the first referral to Goldluxe on March 13, 1979.
These include reading the material sent by the arbitration firm, looking for someone who is knowledgeable about the subject area of the dispute, and getting referrals from friends, businesses, community leaders, lawyers, and others.
He directed a team of three lawyers to begin drafting a document outlining the information gathered in the Lewinsky probe for possible referral to the House on Clinton.
Labor Day drafting a lawsuit to stop Starr from sending a referral to Congress.
Thus it happened that, without reading beyond her annotation recommending referral to the Heptagon for disposition, he jumped on the report Tarah Shiskanova had forwarded.
Starr had read through the entire referral a number of times, giving or withholding his approval for all the changes.
And he got a little antsy talking about his billing, so there could have been something funny about that - taking a cut of her fee, kickbacks for referrals, billing for gynecology instead of psychology to up the reimbursement, whatever.
Apparently some unlicensed syn-psych therapists have been forging referrals for a fee.
Certain powerful people, those who made it possible for him to continue in the illegal sideline of his profession, were displeased that he still made referrals to the cultists.
I rarely take patients without referrals, but a case like this one has a textbook quality to it.
Student referrals were responsible for easily a third of the students she regularly saw.
And there was the doc ignoring his request for a referral to a chiropodist so Terry could get rid of his troublesome bunion on the NHS, and engaging him instead on issues of mortality.
A string of civilian pics on the wall above his desk: a fatter, grayer Buzz with Mayor Bowron, ex-DA Buron Fitts, Errol Flynn, Mickey Cohen, producers he'd pimped for, starlets he'd gotten out of litigation and into abortions, dope cure doctors grateful for his referrals.
But she had particular areas that she followed and a healthy list of clients who benefitted from the leads, referrals, and inside information that she was able to provide.
The Referral Leaves Out Direct Evidence Contradicting the Notion that Ms.