The relationship between physician hours of work, service volume and service intensity

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Jeon, Sung Hee ^a,b   Hurley, Jeremiah ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC SERVICE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34147203624     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/1P17-2098-8553-7311     Document Type: Article

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