Networking Using teleconferencing to enable general practitioner participation in focus groups

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Tolhurst, Helen ^a   Dean, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

focus group; general practice; research; rural; teleconference

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646370818     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1463423604pc190xx     Document Type: Article

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