How do Australian GPs manage shoulder dysfunction?

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 861-863

  Broadhurst, Norman A ^a   Gialamas, Angela ^b   McElroy, Heather J ^b   Beilby, Justin J ^b  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SHOULDER PAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; EPISODE OF CARE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER PAIN;

EID: 16544386990     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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