TY - JOUR T1 - Patient, hospital, and general practitioner characteristics associated with non-attendance: a cohort study. JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 317 LP - 319 VL - 52 IS - 477 AU - William Hamilton AU - Alison Round AU - Deborah Sharp Y1 - 2002/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/52/477/317.abstract N2 - Studies examining characteristics of non-attendance at hospital outpatients have given inconsistent results. We examined a cohort of 1972 referrals from 26 general practitioners, with complete follow-up. Five factors were found to be significantly associated with non-attendance: male sex, younger age, longer interval between referral and appointment, higher Jarman score and patients of a high-referring general practitioner. Targeting of strategies to reduce non-attendance is possible using these results. ER -