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A clinic to which general practitioners can refer patients for some types of orthopaedic appliances was opened in North Clwyd in 1983. During 1985, 956 patients were referred by 82 general practitioners; 860 patients received an appliance, and the average waiting time was less than five weeks. Most referrals were for soft collars (44%), lumbar sacral supports (30%), and dorsilumbar supports (7%). Thirty eight patients failed to attend, 54 declined an appliance, and four referrals were considered to be inappropriate. A few patients were subsequently referred to consultant outpatient clinics, 22 for physiotherapy and 34 were referred simultaneously to the open access clinic. The referral rates for general practitioners with access to community hospitals were low. Such an arrangement merits wider consideration.
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
April 1987,
British medical journal (Clinical research ed.),
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
February 1987,
British medical journal (Clinical research ed.),
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
March 1988,
The Practitioner,
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
February 1979,
British medical journal,
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
March 1979,
British medical journal,
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
March 1979,
British medical journal,
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
August 1996,
The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners,
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
April 1982,
The Practitioner,
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
March 1985,
British medical journal (Clinical research ed.),
S Payne, and
R S Ramaiah, and
D T Jones
May 1973,
The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners,
