Useful Management Information

Minimum Referral Criteria

Does your patient meet the minimum referral criteria?
Category 1 (appointment within 30 calendar days)
  • Newly diagnosed Glomerular Disease where patient is stable but not able to be managed in primary care or general paediatrics
  • Persistent microscopic haematuria with coexisting significant proteinuria
Category 2 (appointment within 90 calendar days)
  • Previously diagnosed chronic Glomerular Disease who require ongoing specialist follow up
  • Asymptomatic persistent microscopic haematuria without proteinuria, where a urological cause is considered unlikely
Category 3 (appointment within 365 calendar days)
  • No category 3 criteria

If your patient does not meet the minimum referral criteria

  • Assessment and management information may be found on a range of conditions at HealthPathways
  • If the patient does not meet the criteria for referral but the referring practitioner believes the patient requires specialist review, a clinical override may be requested:
    • Please explain why (e.g. warning signs or symptoms, clinical modifiers, uncertain about diagnosis, etc.)
  • Please note that your referral may not be accepted or may be redirected to another service

Essential Referral Information

  • Presence of comorbid conditions such as hypertension
  • List of medications
  • BP records (if available)
  • Serial ELFTs including urea and creatinine results
  • FBC
  • Urine albumin creatinine ratio (ACR) or protein creatinine ratio (PCR) (ideally early morning sample)
  • Urine midstream M/C/S (testing for red cell morphology and casts preferable)
  • Ultrasound (kidney, ureters & bladder) and any other available renal imaging results

Additional Referral Information

  • Timeline of symptoms
  • Presence of absence of oedema
  • If significant proteinuria present, include ANCA, anti-DNA Abs and C3/C4
Last updated 22 February 2023

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Internal Referrals

Paediatric Medicine (E-Blueslips)

Fax

(07) 5687 4497

Post

Paediatric Referral Centre
Gold Coast University Hospital
1 Hospital Boulevard
Southport QLD 4215

Enquiries

1300 744 284

Related HealthPathways

No directly related pathways found

Service Availability

Dr Susan Moloney
Medical Director Paediatric Medicine (General Paediatrics)

Facilities

Gold Coast University Hospital

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