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healthcare referral; medical transfer; quality of care; patient pathways; decision support systems; operations management1. Background The referral process is critical to healthcare and begins when a primary care physician (PCP) believes that the patient may require a specialist examination. The PCP...
(COPD); (11) referral rate to secondary care; and (12) antibiotic redemption. Details and definition of assessed process indicators are shown inTable 1. To avoid the repeated counting of performance data, the care events are considered only in the patients’ own general practitioner’s ...