General practice performance in referral for suspected cancer: influence of number of cases and case-mix on publicly reported data

BACKGROUND: Publicly available data show variation in GPs' use of urgent suspected cancer (USC) referral pathways. We investigated whether this could be due to small numbers of cancer cases and random case-mix, rather than due to true variation in performance. METHODS: We analysed individual GP...

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Autores principales: Murchie, P, Chowdhury, A, Smith, S, Campbell, N C, Lee, A J, Linden, D, Burton, C D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Materias:
Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25880009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2015.110

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25880009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2015.110

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