Open AccessPatients undergoing primary surgery for oral and oropharyngeal cancer: how many are referred on the two-week wait pathway and by whom?
Author(s) -
Sunny Patel,
Boyapati Rp,
Aakshay Gulati,
A.W. Barrett
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.39
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1478-7083
pISSN - 0035-8843
DOI - 10.1308/rcsann.2020.0119
Subject(s) - medicine , referral , cancer , malignancy , general surgery , clinical pathway , surgery , family medicine , nursing
Available data suggest that the two-week wait referral pathway is ineffective at expediting diagnosis of cancer due to large numbers of inappropriate referrals. This study aimed to compare the referral pathway of 125 patients who had undergone primary surgery for oral and oropharyngeal cancer with 100 who had been two-week wait referrals.