TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychological determinants of primary care requests for urgent outpatient appointments in elective referrals
AU - Glozier, Nick
AU - Prince, Martin
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - Wide variations in referral practice from primary to secondary care have been observed. Clinical, demographic and referrer characteristics explain little of this variation. Patient psychological characteristics have been suggested as a potential explanation of this, biasing referral. The objective of this study is to investigate, in a relatively homogeneous population, the effects of patient's psychological distress and illness beliefs upon GP's requests for urgent outpatient assessment.
AB - Wide variations in referral practice from primary to secondary care have been observed. Clinical, demographic and referrer characteristics explain little of this variation. Patient psychological characteristics have been suggested as a potential explanation of this, biasing referral. The objective of this study is to investigate, in a relatively homogeneous population, the effects of patient's psychological distress and illness beliefs upon GP's requests for urgent outpatient assessment.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00685.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00685.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 17378870
SN - 1356-1294
VL - 13
SP - 236
EP - 241
JO - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
JF - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
IS - 2
ER -