Rates of referrals by Dutch general practitioners to medical specialists - some theoretical notions and empirical results: paper for the European General Practice Research Workshop at Rheinfelden, october 22-23.

This paper is a presentation made for the European General Practice Research Workshop at Rheinfelden, October 1983. This paper is divided into 2 parts.
1. Theoretical notions about the concept ‘referral rate’.
2. Results of an investigation into the main determinants of referral rates of Dutch general practitioners.