Annals of Family Medicine 2:245-252 (2004)
© 2004 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
doi: 10.1370/afm.68
Referral of Patients to Specialists: Factors Affecting Choice of Specialist by Primary Care Physicians
Kraig S. Kinchen, MD, MSc1,
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH2,3,4,
David Levine, MD, ScD3,4,
Nae Yuh Wang, PhD2 and
Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA2,3,4
1 Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md
2 Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md
3 Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md
4 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md

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Figure 1. Proportion of patients referred to specialists.
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