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Triage of general practitioner referrals to internal medicine: identifying unnecessary referrals and exploring underlying referral reasons

2026-05-07

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<h4>Introduction</h4> Access to specialist care in the Netherlands requires a general practitioner (GP) referral, yet referrals to secondary care keep rising. Triage has been proposed to manage this demand and may be relevant for internal medicine, which addresses diverse and increasingly complex conditions. This study aimed to identify the internal medicine healthcare needs which were redirected to the GP after...

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Literature Corpus work: ee34e59a-bd64-597b-8562-83a4ccd8378b
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.06.26352528

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