Future provision of out of hours primary medical care: a survey with two general practitioner research networks.

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Published in BMJ on February 10, 1996

Authors

V Lattimer1, H Smith, P Hungin, A Glasper, S George

Author Affiliations

1: University of Southampton Wessex Institute of Public Health Medicine, Southampton General Hospital.

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