Referring patients to specialists: A structured vignette survey of Australian and British GPs

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Jiwa, Moyez ^a   Gordon, Michael ^b   Arnet, Hayley ^a   Ee, Hooi ^c   Bulsara, Max ^d   Colwell, Brigitte ^e  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Gleadless Medical Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM SAMPLE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIGNETTE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENERAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SELF-EVALUATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 40349094442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-9-2     Document Type: Article

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