论文信息 - Online and call center referral for endocrine surgical pathology within institutions

Online and call center referral for endocrine surgical pathology within institutions

We hypothesized that self‐referred patients to academic centers will be equally distributed between general surgery and otolaryngology departments that perform thyroid surgery. We sought to quantify disparities in the assignment of these self‐referred patients who may reach an institution through call centers or online pathways.

R. Tufano | Vaninder K. Dhillon | J. Russell | Mai G Al Khadem

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