Leaving the Practice: Effects of Primary Care Physician Departure on Patient Care

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2733-2736

  Pereira, Anne G ^a   Kleinman, Ken P ^a   Pearson, Steven D ^a  

^a Dept of Ambulatory Care and Prev ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCULT BLOOD; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; OFFICE VISITS; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0345600174     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.22.2733     Document Type: Article

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