Assessing the quality of primary care referrals to surgery of patients with diabetes in the East of England: A multi ‐centre cross‐sectional cohort study

ConclusionThis study has shown that the quality of referral letters to surgical specialties for patients with DM in the East of England remain inadequate. There is a clear need for improving the quality of clinical data contained within referral letters from primary care. In addition, we have shown that the rate of referral for surgery for people with diabetes is almost 50% higher than the background population with diabetes.

Source: International Journal of Clinical Practice - June 1, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dimitri J. Pournaras, Evangelos S. Photi, Nicholas Barnett, Christopher P. Challand, Nikolaos A. Chatzizacharias, Nokwanda P. Dlamini, Triantafyllos Doulias, Aoibhinn Foley, James Hernon, Bhaskar Kumar, Jack Martin, Ian Nunney, Ioanna Panagiotopoulou, Nee Tags: ORIGINAL PAPER Source Type: research