Specialty referral completion among primary care patients: results from the ASPN Referral Study.

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Published in Ann Fam Med on July 31, 2007

Authors

Christopher B Forrest1, Efrat Shadmi, Paul A Nutting, Barbara Starfield

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. forrestc@email.chop.edu

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