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Family Practice Vol. 8, No. 4, 308-313
© Oxford University Press 1991

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Factors Influencing General Practitioners' Referral Decisions

JOHN NEWTON, VIC HAYES and ALLEN HUTCHINSON

Centre for Health Services Resarch, School of Health Care Sciences, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AA, UK

This paper presents some findings from a small scale qualitative study of referral decision making conducted in south-east Northumberland in 1988–89. The study was prompted by an interest in variability in referral ratas and the view that existing studies had not attempted to understand referral from the perspective of those involved in making the decisions. Our findings suggest that such understandings are crucial in the analysis of referral decisions and in any policy making initiatives designed to influence the pattern of referring.


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