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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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OBJECTIVE To identify aspects of outpatient referral in which general practitioners', consultants', and patients' satisfaction could be improved. DESIGN Questionnaire survey of general practitioners, consultant orthopaedic surgeons, and patients referred to an orthopaedic clinic. SETTING Orthopaedic clinic, Doncaster Royal Infirmary. SUBJECTS 628 consecutive patients booked into the ortho...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.53.6.535