Implementing referral guidelines: Lessons from a negative outcome cluster randomised factorial trial in general practice

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jiwa, Moyez ^a   Skinner, Paul ^b   Coker, Akinoso Olujimi ^c   Shaw, Lindsey ^d   Campbell, Michael J ^d   Thompson, Joanne ^d  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c DONCASTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENTERITIS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; COLONIC DISEASES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTAL DISEASES; STANDARDS; TIME; WRITING;

COLONIC DISEASES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CORRESPONDENCE AS TOPIC; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FAMILY PRACTICE; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RECTAL DISEASES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750810414     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-65     Document Type: Article

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