ENT trainee papers presented at the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training Conference, 7–8 July 2016, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Abstract

Results A total of 5042 patients were seen. Of these patients, 84.5 per cent were referred by the general practitioner. This one-stop first referral clinic assessed both routine and urgent cases, with mean referral-to-clinic time of 26 days. A huge variety of conditions were encountered, but over 50 per cent of patients were definitively managed with just one out-patient appointment. In addition, we found that clinical examination alone was not sufficiently accurate. In our representative sample, one-third of the patients with clinically diagnosed salivary tumours were over-diagnosed.