Meeting the challenges of workload and building a practice: The perspectives of 10 rural physicians

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-77

  Bowman, Robert C ^a   Crabtree, Benjamin F ^b   Petzel, Janis B ^b   Hadley, Terry S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; RURAL HEALTH CARE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0030977531     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1997.tb00835.x     Document Type: Article

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