Market conditions and general practitioners’ referrals
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General practitioners ' referrals to specialist outpatient clinics
There has been much concern about the wide variations in general practitioners' referral rates and the consequent implications for cost and quality of care. This has led to a call to evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of referrals. A collaborative audit of referrals to outpatient clinics was conducted by 127 general practitioners in 33 practices in the Oxford region. Records were ke...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1389-6563,1573-6962
DOI: 10.1007/s10754-011-9101-y