Financial and work satisfaction: Impacts of participation in primary care reform on physicians in Ontario

Healthcare Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Green, Michael E ^a   Hogg, William ^b,c   Gray, David ^c   Manuel, Doug ^c,d,e   Roller, Michelle ^a   Maaten, Sarah ^e   Zhang, Yan ^f   Shortt, Samuel E D ^a,g  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^f STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^g CMAJ   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SALARY; SELF REPORT;

EID: 74749109267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17156572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12927/hcpol.2013.21179     Document Type: Article

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