Case management by physician assistants and primary care physicians vs emergency physicians

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1046-1051

  Hirshberg, Alan J ^a   Holliman, C James ^a   Wuerz, Richard C ^a   Chapman, Dane M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Acute care; Case management; Clinical scenarios; Emergency physician; Physician assistant; Practice guidelines; Primary care; Primary provider

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030699101     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03678.x     Document Type: Article

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