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Concordance with urgent referral guidelines in patients presenting with any of six ‘alarm’ features of possible cancer: a retrospective cohort study using linked primary care records

BACKGROUND: Clinical guidelines advise GPs in England which patients warrant an urgent referral for suspected cancer. This study assessed how often GPs follow the guidelines, whether certain patients are less likely to be referred, and how many patients were diagnosed with cancer within 1 year of no...

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Autores principales: Wiering, Bianca, Lyratzopoulos, Georgios, Hamilton, Willie, Campbell, John, Abel, Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9304100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34607914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2021-013425