Table 2.

Referrals Made to an Outpatient Doctor Through the Attending Physician According to Risk of Harm

Patients	Subgroup by risk of harm		All	p
	P1; n = 531	P2; n = 54	P1 + P2; n = 585
Group	Low risk	High risk	Both
Parameter	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Assigned outpatient doctora
None	168 (31.6)	3 (5.6)	171 (29.2)	<0.0001
Urologist	288 (54.2)	32 (59.3)	320 (54.7)
Cardiologist	72 (13.6)	10 (18.5)	82 (14.0)
Psychologist	45 (8.5)	3 (5.6)	20 (3.4)
Family doctor	8 (1.5)	2 (3.7)	10 (1.7)
Other	10 (1.9)	6 (11.1)	16 (2.7)

^a Required physician could be more than one specialty.