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. 2002 Apr;52(477):317-9.

Patient, hospital, and general practitioner characteristics associated with non-attendance: a cohort study

William Hamilton  1 , Alison Round, Deborah Sharp
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Patient, hospital, and general practitioner characteristics associated with non-attendance: a cohort study

William Hamilton et al. Br J Gen Pract. 2002 Apr.

Abstract

Studies examining characteristics of non-attendance at hospital outpatients have given inconsistent results. We examined a cohort of 1972 referrals from 26 general practitioners, with complete follow-up. Five factors were found to be significantly associated with non-attendance: male sex, younger age, longer interval between referral and appointment, higher Jarman score and patients of a high-referring general practitioner. Targeting of strategies to reduce non-attendance is possible using these results.

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