Referral of Patients to Specialists: Factors Affecting Choice of Specialist by Primary Care Physicians
Open Access
- 1 May 2004
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 2 (3), 245-252
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.68
Abstract
BACKGROUND We wanted to determine the importance of factors in primary care physicians’ choice of specialist when referring patients and to compare importance ratings by physicians’ race and sex.Keywords
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