The factors that lead to a delay between general practitioner referral of symptomatic patients and specialist diagnosis of colorectal cancer: an audit in the Bay of Plenty District Health Board.

CONCLUSION: The HIS Urgent pathway only identified a third of patients and so the criteria should be reviewed. GPs frequently failed to recognise and refer those who met the criteria. A standardised referral form prompting the inclusion of all required information would improve this. PMID: 30845126 [PubMed - in process]
Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research