General practitioner networks matter in primary health care team service provision

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 312-318

  Naccarella, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

General practice; Multidisciplinary teamwork; Primary care; Relationships

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HONESTY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEAMWORK; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORK RELATED RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 71549140945     PISSN: 14487527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PY08071     Document Type: Article

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