Assessing use of the two-week rule in urology

Abstract

Since the implementation of the two-week rule in urology in December 2000, no studies have yet assessed whether the system is being used appropriately. The authors of this study reviewed the medical records of all patients referred under the two-week rule, and by other routes, to the Urology Departments of Epsom and St Helier Hospitals during a consecutive eight-week period in October and November 2005.