TY - JOUR T1 - Quality of information on hospice referral. JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 219 LP - 220 VL - 50 IS - 452 AU - N Donaldson AU - H Carter AU - R Green Y1 - 2000/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/50/452/219.abstract N2 - 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. ER -