Hospital referrals

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Hospital referrals

edited by Martin Roland and Angela Coulter

(Oxford general practice series, no. 22)

Oxford University Press, 1992

  • : pbk.

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Description

General practitioners' referrals to hospital are of increasing interest within the NHS. This book aims to cover all the major areas relevant to hospital referral, including collection and analysis of data about referrals, auditing referrals, improving communication between GPs and hospital doctors and developing and evaluating referral guidelines. The book should be of interest to general practitioners, public health physicians and to health service managers who need to understand how to interpret variability in referral patterns and how to assess the effectiveness of the referral process. The book is referenced and each chapter is written by an expert in the field.

Table of Contents

  • The interface between primary and secondary care, Angela Coulter
  • the history and development of the referral system, Nigel Oswald
  • the interface between general practice and secondary care in Europe and North America, Douglas Fleming
  • the NHS Review, 1988-1991 - GPs and contracts for care, Barry Tennison
  • measuring referral rates, Martin Roland
  • patterns of referral - explaining variation, David Wilkin
  • decision-making and hospital referrals, Roger Jones
  • communication between general practitioners and specialists, Martin Roland
  • the patient's perspective, Angela Coulter
  • measuring appropriateness of hospital referrals, Martin Roland
  • auditing referrals, Angela Coulter
  • developing referral guidelines, David Armstrong and Andrew Haines
  • the effectiveness of referral guidelines - a review of the methods and findings of published evaluations, Ian Russell and Jeremy Grimshaw
  • hospital referral - the future, Martin Roland.

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