Deficits in Communication and Information Transfer Between Hospital-Based and Primary Care Physicians

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Tập 297 Số 8 - Trang 831 - 2007
Sunil Kripalani1, F. Lefèvre, Christopher O. Phillips, Mark V. Williams, Preetha Basaviah, David W. Baker
1Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga 30303, USA.

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