Primary Care in the United Kingdom and the United States: Are There Lessons to Learn from Each Other?

Archives of Family Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 311-314

  Ajdari, Zohreh ^a,b   Fein, Oliver ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Box 572 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032111520     PISSN: 10633987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archfami.7.4.311     Document Type: Article

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