Adequacy of electronic and in-person referrals to endocrinology: a prospective study of primary care and hospital consultations
Juan J. Díez, Macarena Alpañés, Pedro Iglesias, Raquel Mateo · 2026
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Juan Díez and co-authors judge how apt referrals to a hormone specialist service were in a 2026 prospective study at a Spanish hospital. Demand for endocrinology keeps rising, and poorly aimed referrals waste scarce slots. Electronic consultations, where specialists advise without seeing the patient, were compared with in-person referrals from family doctors and hospital colleagues.
All requests over fifty-two working days were logged, totalling more than eleven hundred consultations. Just over six in ten were judged adequate overall. Electronic consultations scored highest, while hospital in-person referrals scored lowest. Faults in electronic cases were mostly administrative, whereas hospital cases mixed clinical and paperwork problems. Nearly half of family doctor referrals were marked urgent, and many of those urgency calls were judged wrong, pointing to clearer referral rules as a fix.
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| CREATOR | Juan J. Díez, Macarena Alpañés, Pedro Iglesias, Raquel Mateo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62664 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |