Where do children go?: Comparing the after-hours availability of family physicians and primary care pediatricians in four Canadian cities

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 43, Issue JUL., 1997, Pages 1235-1239

  Patel, Hema ^a   Macarthur, Colin ^b   Feldman, William ^b  

^a MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; PEDIATRICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MANITOBA; ONTARIO; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUEBEC;

EID: 0031181974     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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