Research Article
Revisiting Cancer Diagnosis in Scotland: Further Insights from the Second Scottish National Cancer Diagnosis Audit
Table 3
Type of referral and percentages compared between time periods.
| | Valid N | Routine | Urgent | Urgent suspected cancer (USC) | Private health clinic referral | Emergency referral | Screening detected | Others | Not known | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % |
| 2014 | 1974 | 10.5 | 9.4 | 38.1 | 1.1 | 20.4 | 6.0 | 8.5 | 6.0 | 2019 | 2318 | 8.2 | 9.0 | 42.9 | 1.4 | 19.2 | 6.5 | 6.6 | 6.2 | Change | | −2.3 | 0.4 | 4.8 | 0.3 | −1.2 | 0.5 | −1.9 | 0.2 |
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Chi-squared test 0.008.
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