Scandinavian journal of primary health care
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Scand J Prim Health Care · Jun 2001
Specialists as consultants to GPs. Private sector services as an alternative way of organising consultant services in health care.
To assess the effect on referral rate when GPs are given a better opportunity to send their patients to specialists for consultation. ⋯ An enhanced possibility to consult private specialists increases the number of referrals, but there are no consequent changes in the relative shares of the consulted specialties.