Facilitators and barriers to improving interprofessional referral relationships between primary care physicians and chiropractors

Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 347-354

  Allareddy, Veerasathpurush ^a   Greene, Barry R ^a   Smith, Monica ^b   Haas, Mitchell ^c   Liao, Junlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PALMER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United States)

^c Western States Chiropractic College   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus group interviews; Hiropractic; Interprofessional referrals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

CHIROPRACTIC; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; IOWA; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 34548677507     PISSN: 01489917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.JAC.0000290404.96907.e3     Document Type: Article

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