General practitioner access to gastroscopy: is 'censorship' valuable?
An audit was carried out on the activities of a one stop clinic where patients referred by GPs for endoscopy are first interviewed by a gastroenterologist, directly before the procedure. Such a barrier to open access endoscopy did not seem to reduce the workload or the rate of normal examinations.
Digestive Diseases Research Centre, St Bartholomew's, London.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D005773:Gastroscopy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008485:Medical Audit; D008875:Middle Aged; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016526:Workload