title: Quality of information on hospice referral.
abstract: Good quality referral information provides hospice staff with essential information at a time when patients are particularly vulnerable. An Ideal Referral Criteria tool for measuring the quality of general practitioners' information was piloted at one hospice site. Overall inter-rater reliability was 90%, with individual categories ranging from 19% to 34%. Cronbach's alpha was 0.35. Further psychometric testing is recommended.
authors.affiliation: Mary Potter Hospice, Wellington South, New Zealand.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Donaldson
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice; D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009520:New Zealand; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011594:Psychometrics; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results