Reason for Referrals among Military Primary Care Physicians

Autor:	Shlomo Zvieli, Reuben Steinherz
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Referral business.industry Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Specialty MEDLINE General Medicine Primary care Military medicine Military personnel Nursing Family medicine Ambulatory medicine business
Zdroj:	Military Medicine. 157:420-423
ISSN:	1930-613X 0026-4075
DOI:	10.1093/milmed/157.8.420
Popis:	In order to assess the reasons for high referral rates to secondary medical care services in the Israel Defence Force-Medical Corps, we conducted a study in which 28 physicians in five primary care clinics took part. Seven hundred thirty-seven patients were referred to specialists. The referral reasons were learned from questionnaires filled in for each of these patients. The study shows that factors related to the physicians are important in determining when referral is made: Israeli medical graduates showed less confidence than their peer graduates outside of Israel. A possible explanation is that the Israeli graduates are better prepared for working in a scientific, sophisticated medical environment rather than the ambulatory primary care environment.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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