What is it about?
Contrary to popular misconception GP referrals increase as a series of steps with seeming little involvement from population demographic change. This article investigates changes in dermatology first attendance during one of these events occurring roughly around 2007/2008.
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Why is it important?
If you wish to understand health care costs you need to understand the fundamental mechanisms behind growth. Step-like increases are a foreign concept in health care and hence go totally unnoticed because they are not supposed to be there.
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Part of a longer series investigating step-like increases in all manner of health care activities, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf These curious events are now known to be international in reach.
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: GP referral to dermatology: which conditions?, British Journal of Healthcare Management, November 2012, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2012.18.11.594.
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