Playing by the rules: Speech pathologists' views about patient suitability for the enhanced primary care program

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 269-272

  Skeat, Jemma ^a,b   Morgan, Angela ^a,b   Nickless, Tristan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Private Practice   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPEECH DISORDER; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY;

EID: 68349116207     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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