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2495084

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6672
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-5-15
pubmed:abstractText
A 20-fold variation in referral rates from general practitioners to hospital outpatient departments has been shown in studies published to date. Most of the hypotheses proposed to account for this variation have not been supported by these studies. A simple model was constructed, which showed that a significant part of the variation may be due to the fairly small numbers of referrals in most studies. Real differences may have been swamped by random variations in the small numbers of referrals. The statistical power of the studies may not have been high enough to determine which factors were significant in describing the variation and how much of the variation was due to differing clinical practice. There remains a substantial part of the variation that cannot be accounted for.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0959-8138
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
298
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
500-2
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
How much variation in referral rates among general practitioners is due to chance?
pubmed:affiliation
General Practice Performance Reveiw Unit, Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article