Trends in referrals from Croatian family practice in relation to specialists' consultations: a longitudinal observational study from 1995 to 2012.

Drug prescribing and referrals to specialists' consultations, as the indicators of the quality of health care, were not so often monitored in Croatian family medicine. The aims of the study are to determine the trends of referrals from family doctors to specialists' consultations and the trends of specialists' consultations utilization. The study is based on routinely collected data from the Croatian Health Service Yearbooks, 1995-2012.