Expanding the roles of medical assistants who does what in primary care?

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1025-1026

  Bodenheimer, Thomas ^a   Willard Grace, Rachel ^a   Ghorob, Amireh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MANAGER; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; NOTE; NURSE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTERED NURSE; SAFETY; SALARY; SCOPE OF PRACTICE; SELF CARE; SOCIAL WORKER; WORKLOAD;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84904119134     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.1319     Document Type: Note

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