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Table 5 Percentage and number of different types of requests contained in referral letters categorised by the second Grol [20] quality criterion

From: Impact of a referral management “gateway” on the quality of referral letters; a retrospective time series cross sectional review

  

Time 0 (n = 301)

  

Time 1 (n = 280)

  
 

Explicit

Implicit

Total

Explicit

Implicit

Total

p

 

%

%

% (no.)

(%)

(%)

% (no.)

 

All requests

39.6

58.5

98.1 (295)

30.4

68.3

98.7 (276)

0.785

Specific requests regarding

       

 -diagnosis

7.3

33.6

40.9 (123)

6.1

40.4

46.5 (130)

0.229

 -treatment

17.3

6.3

23.6 (71)

13.9

9.3

23.2 (65)

0.260

 -management plan

15.0

18.6

33.6 (101)

10.4

18.6

29.0 (81)

0.240