the effectiveness of “two-week” referrals for suspected bone and soft tissue sarcoma

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Abstract
The two-week “wait” target introduced in 2000 requires that patients with suspected cancer referred by general practitioners should be seen within two weeks. We reviewed patients who had been referred under this standard to the North of England Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Service, to determine if the referral guidelines had been followed, and what proportion of patients referred under the guideline had malignant tumours. 40 patients were referred under the guideline between January 2004 and December 2005. Ten of these patients (2548%) had malignant tumours, compared with 243 of 507 (48%) of those referred from other sources. In 9 of the 40 cases, the patient did not meet the criteria for urgent referral. Although this target has focussed attention on shortening the time to diagnosis and treatment, prioritising patients referred from general practitioners has the potential to disadvantage those with malignant tumours referred from other sources.
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Authors ;A. Malik;L. Wigney;S. Murray;C. H. Gerrand
Journal the journal of physiology
Year 2007
DOI
10.1155/2007/23870
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/23870
Keywords
neoplasms Oncology including cancer and carcinogens tumors

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