title: [An analysis of the referrals of primary care physicians to a hospital hypertension unit].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the referral of hypertense patients from primary care to a hospital arterial hypertension unit, the quality of the information sent and the profile of the referred patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive crossover study.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Hospital Clínico of San Carlos in Madrid.
  
  
  METHODS
  A simple random sample of 368 clinical records belonging to patients attended at the unit over the last 3 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  54.6% of patients were referred from primary care. 48.9% of the interclinical (IC) notes were high-quality, with 28.7% acceptable. 36.8% of referrals were considered incorrect, 30.3% because of false unresponsiveness to treatment. Good or acceptable IC notes were associated with 94.1% of correct referrals and only 65.4% of incorrect referrals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A high proportion of referrals which were incorrect by the consensus criteria were detected and were caused by inadequate or insufficient medical treatment. There was a statistically significant relationship found between correct referrals and the quality of information sent in the IC note.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud Las Aguilas, Madrid.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Galgo Nafría
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Martell Claros
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: García Ruiz
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Abad Paniagua
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: López Eady
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fernández Pinilla
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Luque Otero
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008499:Medical Records / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010820:Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011897:Random Allocation; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013030:Spain
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents