General practitioner access to gastroscopy: is 'censorship' valuable?

Br J Gen Pract · 1998

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Abstract

An audit was carried out on the activities of a one stop clinic where patients referred by GPs for endoscopy are first interviewed by a gastroenterologist, directly before the procedure. Such a barrier to open access endoscopy did not seem to reduce the workload or the rate of normal examinations.