A systematic review of the effect of primary care-based service innovations on quality and patterns of referral to specialist secondary care

Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2005
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CRD SUMMARY:

This review assessed the effects of primary care-based interventions on referral to specialists. The authors concluded that there were few studies of good quality, although there was some support for organisational and in-house specialists, and that further good-quality research is required. The authors' conclusions regarding the need for such research are likely to be reliable.
Epistemonikos ID: 2863434e775029fe64d7113ed67db1711188dbb6
First added on: Jun 08, 2012