RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Quality of information on hospice referral.
JF British Journal of General Practice
JO Br J Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 219
OP 220
VO 50
IS 452
A1 N Donaldson
A1 H Carter
A1 R Green
YR 2000
UL http://bjgp.org/content/50/452/219.abstract
AB 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.