ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2002
Psychiatric referral rates and the influence of on-site mental health workers in general practice.
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Psychological factors explaining the referral behavior of Iranian family physicians.Iranian Red Crescent medical journal · 2014Article
- Do referral-management schemes reduce hospital outpatient attendances? Time-series evaluation of primary care referral management.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2013Article
- The In-House Psychologist: Do We Speak the Same Language? Short Report of a Qualitative Practice Project.Health psychology research · 2013Article
- General practitioners' management of mental disorders: a rewarding practice with considerable obstacles.BMC family practice · 2012Article
- Schizophrenia in general practice: a national survey of general practitioners in Ireland.Irish journal of medical scienceArticle
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Abstract
Psychiatric referral rates vary widely between different general practices. To increase our understanding of this variation, we conducted a one-year prospective observational study of outpatient psychiatric referrals made by all general practices (622 referrals from 29 practices) within the catchment area of one inner-city psychiatric service. Contrary to our hypothesis, practices with higher allocations of on-site mental health workers did not have lower psychiatric referral rates. On the other hand, the highest referring practices had lower mental health worker allocations suggesting a possible influence upon referrals in this subgroup. A wide range of quantitative variables explained very little of the referral rate variation, implying that more subjective factors, such as general practitioner attitudes, may be influential in the decision to refer a patient to the psychiatrist.
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