Australian general practice and pandemic influenza: Models of clinical practice in an established pandemic

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 355-358

  Phillips, Christine B ^a,e   Patel, Mahomed S ^a,f   Glasgow, Nicholas ^a,f   Pearce, Christopher ^b   Dugdale, Paul ^a,c   Davies, Alison ^d   Hall, Sally ^a,e   Kljakovic, Marjan ^a,e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Whitehorse Division of General Practice   (Australia)

^c Australia   (Australia)

^d Australian Divisions of General Practice   (Australia)

^e Academic Unit of General Practice and Community Health   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMERGENCY CARE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICARE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PANDEMIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 34147110921     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00937.x     Document Type: Article

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