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A referral may have specified more than one special needs condition with the most common category being those who were medically compromised (81.7%). The reasons for referral included lack of compliance (27.2%), further management due to multiple medical conditions or <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">GA<\/jats:styled-content> services required (9.9%), or for multiple other reasons (62.9%).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>A diverse pattern of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SND<\/jats:styled-content> patients was referred to the <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">ISNU<\/jats:styled-content> with a majority of referrals having no specific referral reason cited, suggesting poor quality of referrals.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/adj.12465","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,9,27]],"date-time":"2016-09-27T07:05:35Z","timestamp":1474959935000},"page":"173-179","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Referral patterns of special needs patients at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"62","author":[{"given":"M","family":"Mohamed Rohani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Dentistry University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"H","family":"Calache","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Deakin Health Economics Deakin University Geelong Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"GL","family":"Borromeo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Melbourne Dental School University of Melbourne Melbourne Victoria Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,5,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_7_2_1","first-page":"1","volume-title":"Policy Statement 2.4. 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