Waiting to see the specialist: Patient and provider characteristics of wait times from primary to specialty care

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jaakkimainen, Liisa ^a   Glazier, Richard ^a   Barnsley, Jan ^b   Salkeld, Erin ^c   Lu, Hong ^a   Tu, Karen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Central Local Health Integration Network   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADULT; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892758797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-15-16     Document Type: Article

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