American Primary Care Physicians’ Decisions to Leave Their Practice: Evidence From the 2009 Commonwealth Fund Survey of Primary Care Doctors

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 187-194

  Gray, Bradford H ^a   Stockley, Karen ^a   Zuckerman, Stephen ^a  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

health care reform; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; primary health care; private practice; workforce

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990347678     PISSN: 21501319     EISSN: 21501327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2150131911425392     Document Type: Article

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