title: Getting the best of both worlds--clinical excellence at a peripheral unit.
abstract: Audit of hospital practice in remote areas and military practice indicates that it is possible to provide a high degree of patient safety with the advantages of care close to home in a small hospital with less than 100 beds. However such an approach requires strict attention to training and retraining, good clinical networking, attention to quality control and a well defined system for identifying those patients who need to be transferred to a specialist centre.
authors.affiliation: The Princess Mary's Hospital, RAF Akrotiri BFPO 57.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Day
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Veen
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006772:Hospitals, Military; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D019035:Rural Health Services