Quality of information on hospice referral.
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Good quality referral information provides hospice staff with essential information at a time when patients are particularly vulnerable. An Ideal Referral Criteria tool for measuring the quality of general practitioners' information was piloted at one hospice site. Overall inter-rater reliability was 90%, with individual categories ranging from 19% to 34%. Cronbach's alpha was 0.35. Further psychometric testing is recommended.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
دوره 50 452 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000