Table 3.
Reasons for referrals and completed assessments. ‡Discharged before referral received. Please note that the statistical analysis refers only to the referred and assessed rates for 2005/2006 year. For this, we have used nonparametric analysis (Chi-square test) to test for the differences between referred and assessed sample proportions. Only significant values are presented in the table. N refers to number of referrals.
| Requested assessment | 2009/2010 referrals (%) N = 789 |
2008/2009 referrals (%) N = 1005 |
2005/2006 referrals (%) N = 731 |
2005/2006 assessments (%) |
χ
2
test P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mood | 259 (32.8%) | 259 (25.8%) | 209 (28.6%) | 205 (28.0%) | NS |
| Future care | 166 (21.0%) | 167 (16.6%) | 182 (24.9%) | 163 (22.3%) | NS |
| Cognition | 385 (48.8%) | 282 (28.1%) | 139 (19.0%) | 126 (17.2%) | NS |
| Medication advice* | 136 (17.2%) | 75 (7.5%) | 116 (15.9%) | 143 (19.6%) | NS |
| Behavioural problems | 131 (16.6%) | 103 (10.3%) | 109 (14.9%) | 100 (13.7%) | NS |
| Capacity | 63 (8%) | 57 (5.7%) | 79 (10.8%) | 60 (8.2%) | NS |
| Psychosis | 32 (4.1%) | 16 (1.6%) | 48 (6.6%) | 40 (5.5%) | NS |
| Diagnosis | 20 (2.5%) | 32 (3.2%) | 47 (6.4%) | 36 (4.9%) | NS |
| Delirium | 20 (2.5%) | 16 (1.6%) | 24 (3.3%) | 23 (3.2%) | NS |
| Anxiety | 32 (4.1%) | 18 (1.8%) | 20 (2.7%) | 17 (2.3%) | NS |
| Suicidality | 18 (2.3%) | 7 (0.7%) | 13 (1.8%) | 11 (1.5%) | NS |
| Social issues | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 60 (8.2%) | 124 (17.0%) |
χ
2 = 25.37; P = 0.001 |
| Not seen | 19 (2.4%) | 21 (2.1%) | 3 (0.4%)‡ | 118 (16.1%) |
χ
2 = 125.72; P = 0.001 |
| Other | 20 (2.5%) | 31 (3.1%) | 11 (1.5%) | 19 (2.6%) | NS |
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| Total requests/assessments | 1272 | 1065 | 1038 | 1185 |
χ
2 = 3.731; P = 0.0534 |