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| What is the relationship between general practitioners' community referrals, and hospital referrals to an old age psychiatric service? | | Author(s) | R Butler, D Oyewole, B Pitt |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 4, no 1, February 2000 |
| Pages | pp 79-81 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Psychiatric treatment ; Hospital services ; General practitioners ; Kensington and Chelsea. |
| Annotation | There is a large variation in the referral rates of general practitioners (GPs) to specialist services. There is also evidence that GPs under-refer patients with dementia and depression to old age psychiatric services. However, little is known about individual GP referral rates to these services. Patients may be referred to psychiatric services by GPs in the community (community referrals), or by physicians and surgeons in hospitals (hospital referrals). One way of controlling for GP variables, such as practice size and the age profile of patients, may be to examine the relationship between hospital and community referrals for each GP. The hypothesis of this UK study was that there would be positive correlations between these types of referral. A total of 674 new referrals from 62 local GPs were examined over a 6-year period. The GPs made an average of 7.1 community referrals and 3.8 of their patients were hospital referrals. There was a significant positive relationship between the number of hospital and community referrals for each GP. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000407410 A |
| Classmark | LP: LD: QT6: 82LL |
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