Demographic and clinical factors associated with physician service use in systemic sclerosis.

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Published in J Rheumatol on January 01, 2009

Authors

Sasha Bernatsky1, Pantelis Panopolis, Marie Hudson, Janet Pope, Sharon Leclercq, David Robinson, Niall Jones, Janet Markland, Maysan Abu-Hakima, Jean-Pierre Mathieu, Peter Docherty, Nader Khalidi, Evelyn Sutton, Murray Baron, Canadian Scleroderma Research Group

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, 687 Pine Avenue West, V-Building, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 1A1. sasha.bernatsky@mail.mcgill.ca

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