Using and providing out-of-hours services: Can patients and GPs agree?

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 266-275

  Shipman, Cathy ^a   Dale, Jeremy ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appropriate; Lay perspectives; Out of hours; Primary health care; Service development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033449919     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2524.1999.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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