Impact of Advanced Access on access, workload, and continuity: controlled before-and-after and simulated-patient study.

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Published in Br J Gen Pract on August 01, 2007

Authors

Chris Salisbury1, Alan A Montgomery, Lucy Simons, Fiona Sampson, Sarah Edwards, Helen Baxter, Stephen Goodall, Helen Smith, Val Lattimer, D Mark Pickin

Author Affiliations

1: Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol. c.salisbury@bristol.ac.uk

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