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Correlation coefficients were: referral ratio versus detection rate (0.42), referral ratio versus conversion rate (−0.35), and detection rate versus conversion rate (0.37).
Figure 3 shows combinations of referral ratio and detection rate with similar hazard ratios.
Mortality decreased with the level of referral ratio and detection rate.
Figure 2 shows the distributions of referral ratio, conversion rate, and detection rate.
Fourthly, the health economic consequences of modifying the practice referral ratio need to be elaborated.
The table shows the analysis of all cause mortality in relation to referral ratio, conversion rate, and detection rate.
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Model A presented referral ratios from the different PHC models univariately; in model B the referral ratios were adjusted for age and gender.
For patients with breast cancer, this would reduce the differences between general practices' low and high referral ratios.
There was a significant reduction in the variability of referral ratios and conversion, detection and emergency presentation rates, with a notably larger reduction in the interquartile range of referral ratios for 'activity' practices compared with those not taking up any specified activity (Table 3).
For individual GP practices, indirectly age- and sex-standardised referral ratios (SRR) were calculated, based on the number of referrals expected given the practice population structure and the age- and sex-specific referral rates for England, with an SRR of 100 representing the expected referral rate.
An increasing co-morbidity level correlated with a higher physician- to self-referral ratio.
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