
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nicholson, Caroline 
A1  - Jackson, Claire L 
A1  - Wright, Bernadette 
A1  - Mainwaring, Paul 
A1  - Holliday, Dimity 
A1  - Lankowski, Andrew 
A1  - Kardash, Christine 
T1  - Online referral and OPD booking from the GP desktop
JF  - Australian Health Review
JO  - Aust. Health Review
Y1  - 2006
VL  - 30
IS  - 3
SP  - 397
EP  - 404
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AH060397 
N2  - The Brisbane Inner South E-referral Project (BISEP) developed an application which allowed general practitioners, from their desktop, to successfully search for and book an available hospital outpatient appointment for patients with suspected cancer, send the referral electronically, and inform the patient of both the appointment and referral during the consultation. The hospital changed their outpatient department processes to allow such functionality for local GPs with patients with suspected cancer, working from a mutually agreed set of best practice referral criteria. A group of 19 GPs participated in an 11-week pilot implementation of the application, and were enthusiastic about continuing and expanding the approach. Patient satisfaction measures post intervention indicated that they perceived no major disadvantage in this form of outpatient department referral. 
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