Validity of self-reported utilization of physician services: a population study.

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Published in Eur J Public Health on June 28, 2013

Authors

Wim Peersman1, Inge Pasteels, Dirk Cambier, Jan De Maeseneer, Sara Willems

Author Affiliations

1: 1 Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Campus Heymans - 6K3, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Gent, Belgium.

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