Rheumatology out-patient workload increases inexorably
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Changes in rheumatology out-patient workload over 12 years in the South West of England.
Rheumatologists in the former South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) have undertaken regional audits of their out-patient workloads on five occasions from 1988 w1x to 1994 w2x. These spanned the introduction of the NHS reforms of 1991 w3x, for which proper evaluation was not undertaken either before or during their introduction. The rheumatology audits recorded all out-patient referrals d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1462-0324,1462-0332
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/36.4.481