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Patient’s travel distance to specialised cancer diagnostics and the association with the general practitioner’s diagnostic strategy and satisfaction with the access to diagnostic procedures: an observational study in Denmark

2020-04-21

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>Research indicate that when general practitioners (GPs) refer their patients for specialist care, the patient often has long distance. This study had a twofold aim: in accordance to the GP’s suspicion of cancer, we investigated the association between: 1) cancer patient’s travel distance to the first specialised diagnostic facility and the GP’s diagnostic strate...

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Literature Corpus work: 8629214e-1ba8-5bcd-9ef7-be642c3c7c8e
DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.24205/v2

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