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In private clinics, 86.0 of the referrals were to specialist and none was referred to any of the allied health professionals. The types of referrals in private clinics are as reported in Table 11.3.
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Table 11.3: Types of referrals in private clinics in 2012
Specialty Number
Percentage of all
referrals Percentage
of referral group
Rate per 100 encounters
95 CI n = 99,253
Rate per 100 diagnoses
95 CI n = 120,067
Medical specialist 1398
86.01 100.00
1.41 1.34 - 1.48 1.17 1.10 - 1.23
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83.75 97.37
1.37 1.30 - 1.45 1.14 1.08 - 1.20
ENT 37
2.26 2.63
0.04 0.03 - 0.05 0.03 0.02 - 0.04
Allied Health -
- -
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Others 227
13.99 100.00
0.23 0.20 - 0.26 0.19 0.17 - 0.22
Others 154
9.48 67.77
0.16 0.13 - 0.18 0.13 0.11 - 0.15
Dentist 73
4.51 32.23
0.08 0.06 - 0.09 0.06 0.05 - 0.08
Total referrals 1625
100.00 -
1.64 1.56 - 1.72 1.36 1.29 - 1.42
Others include referral to public clinic Note: ENT - Ear, nose and throat otolaryngology
11.3 DIAGNOSES MOST FREQUENTLY REFERRED TO HOSPITAL
All referrals could be linked to one or multiple diagnoses per visit. The availability of this linkage enabled the analysis of the most frequently referred diagnosesproblems to hospitals and specialists. Referral to
hospital was provided in management of 2,872 diagnoses. Table 11.4 shows ten diagnoses most frequently referred to hospital, which were tabulated from both public and private clinics, and presented as overall
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100 cases being referred. 6HFRQGZDVGLDEHWHVRIZKLFKPDMRULW\RIWKRVHUHIHUUHGZHUHIHPDOHVZLWKJHVWDWLRQDOGLDEHWHV
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unsurprisingly high referrals as well with a rate of 47.2 per 100 contacts.
