Only 33% of visits for skin disease in the US in 1995 were to dermatologists: Is decreasing the number of dermatologists the appropriate response?

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Thompson, Tadd T ^a   Feldman, Steven R ^a   Fleischer, Alan B ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACNE; CELLULITIS; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DERMATOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN CARE; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TUMOR; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

EID: 4444340019     PISSN: 10872108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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