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The effectiveness of different patient referral systems to shorten waiting times for elective surgeries: systematic review
BACKGROUND: Long waiting times for elective surgery are common to many publicly funded health systems. Inefficiencies in referral systems in high-income countries are more pronounced than lower and middle-income countries. Primary care practitioners play a major role in determining which patients ar...
Autores principales: | Rathnayake, Dimuthu, Clarke, Mike |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7887721/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33596882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06140-w |
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