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Formal training in medicine suggests that partnerships among specialties to improve the patient’s global condition are essential. This concept is inherent to the growth of medicine and its complexity (Horst et al., J Bone Joint Surg Am 97(10):869–75, 2015), creating the need for specialty management to keep pace. Patients need to have a visible and definable pathway to get efficient and efficacious care, with easily navigable involvement with general practitioners and subspecialties. These relationships among providers define this pathway and serve many functions, both in the clinical and business realms.
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Pope, J.E. (2016). Referral Networks. In: Falowski, S., Pope, J. (eds) Integrating Pain Treatment into Your Spine Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27796-7_8
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