Setting the revisit interval in primary care
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 14 (4) , 230-235
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.00322.x
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:Although longitudinal care constitutes the bulk of primary care, physicians receive little guidance on the fundamental question of how to time follow-up visits. We sought to identify...Keywords
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