The role of contextual factors in decision-making by General Practitioners on paediatric referral to the Emergency Department in Ireland: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Therese McDonnell, Emma Nicholson, Gerard Bury, Claire Collins, Ciara Conlon, Aoife De Brún, Edel Doherty and Eilish McAuliffe

Health Policy, 2023, vol. 132, issue C

Abstract: A General Practitioner's (GP) decision to refer a patient to the emergency department (ED) requires consideration of a multitude of factors, and significant variation in GP referral patterns to secondary care has been recorded. This study examines the contextual factors that influence GPs when referring a paediatric patient with potentially self-limiting clinical symptoms to the ED.

Keywords: Discrete choice experiment; General practice; Emergency department; Referral; Decision-making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104813

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