Leaving Gatekeeping Behind — Effects of Opening Access to Specialists for Adults in a Health Maintenance Organization.¶
Ferris, T. G., Chang, Y., Blumenthal, D., & Pearson, S. D. (2001). Leaving Gatekeeping Behind — Effects of Opening Access to Specialists for Adults in a Health Maintenance Organization. New England Journal of Medicine, 345(18), 1312-1317.
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- Gatekeeping
- Immigration and border control. Visa officers, consular interviews, customs inspections; eligibility criteria plus officer discretion plus queue length define the effective gate. Hiring and admissions. Recruiters, keyword filters, application screeners, committees — each gate reshapes the candidate pool. Healthcare access. Primary-care referral gating specialist access; pharmacists gating dispensing; insurer prior-authorization.
This sourceEstablishes primary-care referral gatekeeping of specialist access as a health-services access gate and studies the effects of removing it.
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Ferris et al. document primary-care referral gatekeeping of specialist access and what happened when an HMO removed it; the immigration, hiring, pharmacist and prior-authorization examples are outside it.
“Gatekeeping refers to the prior approval of referrals to specialists by a primary care physician.”
- Immigration and border control. Visa officers, consular interviews, customs inspections; eligibility criteria plus officer discretion plus queue length define the effective gate. Hiring and admissions. Recruiters, keyword filters, application screeners, committees — each gate reshapes the candidate pool. Healthcare access. Primary-care referral gating specialist access; pharmacists gating dispensing; insurer prior-authorization.
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