General practitioners’ choice of referral destination: A probit analysis

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 587-594

  Whynes, David K ^a   Reed, Geoffrey ^a   Newbold, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84993086342     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1468(199611)17:6<587::AID-MDE779>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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