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Table 8 Average waiting time by clinical areaa

From: The effect of referral templates on out-patient quality of care in a hospital setting: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Clinical area

Intervention group

Control group

Dyspepsia

41 (28.6)

47 (46.3)

Suspicion of CRC

40 (31.4)

43 (37.5)

Chest pain

69 (42.5)

69 (39.1)

COPD

108 (59.6)

78 (44.3)

  1. a Numbers are days (rounded to whole days) with SD in brackets; no significant differences between intervention and control groups