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Caregivers were asked about their preferred referral health facilities and the reasons as to why they preferred these health facilities.
Preferred referral sites for stated WTP included public facilities (52%%), private health facilities (45 %) and mission hospitals (3 %).
The respondent was then asked if he/she would take his/her child to the preferred referral health facility if it would cost him/her a total of US$0.5 in costs related to the process of seeking and obtaining full treatment.
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The GPs with a post-graduate education and interest in psychiatry prefer referral for OCD (20.2%; 17.7%), which were lower than those with no education (38.4%; p = 0.002) and interest (38.4%; p = 0.0001).
There are tons of recommendation sites out there, but for services where the stakes are much higher than a meal like pediatricians or financial advisors a lot of people still prefer referrals from friends.
The GPs with accurate diagnoses (25.6%) were less likely to refer the patient compared to those GPs with inaccurate diagnoses (64.7%) for OCD vignette (p = 0.001), who preferred the referral more.
Most GPs prefer patient referral [ 5, 6], as provider referral is perceived as being both costly and time consuming [ 2, 5].
Other surveys have found that for STIs people may indicate that patient referral would be preferred over provider referral if they were to test positive [ 18], but the method preferred may vary by type of partner (close or casual) [ 20].
Although rated the least acceptable method to the public some might prefer provider referral.
For curable STIs both patients and doctors may prefer patient referral [ 18, 19].
In a pilot project (28 patients) to assess efficiency and experience of teledermatology in primary care in Canada, the patients only preferred teleconsulting for referral when available significantly sooner than face-to-face appointments [ 27].
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