Access to subspecialty care for patients with mobility impairment: A survey

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 441-446

  Lagu, Tara ^a   Hannon, Nicholas S ^a   Rothberg, Michael B ^b   Wells, Annalee S ^c   Laurie Green, K ^a   Windom, McAllister O ^d   Dempsey, Katherine R ^a   Pekow, Penelope S ^a   Avrunin, Jill S ^a   Chen, Aaron ^e   Lindenauer, Peter K ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c not available   (United States)

^d not available   (United States)

^e not available   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEPHONE; WHEELCHAIR;

EID: 84879839412     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-6-201303190-00003     Document Type: Article

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