Quality of referral letters in oral medicine: a two-year study in a Brazilian public dental specialty center.
Researchers reviewed 430 referral letters to a Brazilian oral medicine service over two years, finding that most letters were rated regular or good quality but lacked clinically important details like symptom duration and lesion size; notably, 14.4% of referrals involved potentially malignant or malignant lesions despite often being incompletely documented.
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