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Knowledge or noise? Making sense of General Practitioners’ and Consultant use of 2-week-wait referrals for suspected cancer

BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis and treatment of cancer is the goal of the 2-week-wait referral pathway (2WW). Variation exists between General Practice use of 2WW and rates of consultant reprioritisation of GP referral from routine to 2WW (Consultant Upgrade). We investigated variation in General Pract...

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Autores principales: Donnelly, Conan, Hart, Nigel, McCrorie, Alan David, Anderson, Lesley, Donnelly, Michael, Murchie, Peter, Gavin, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5572170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28751756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2017.213