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Provider Continuity in Family Medicine: Does It Make a Difference for Total Health Care Costs?

Jan M. De Maeseneer, Lutgarde De Prins, Christiane Gosset and Jozef Heyerick
The Annals of Family Medicine September 2003, 1 (3) 144-148; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.75
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vol. 1 no. 3 144-148
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.75
PubMed 
15043375

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication February 4, 2003
  • Revision received July 2, 2003
  • Accepted for publication July 5, 2003
  • Published online September 30, 2003.

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  1. Jan M. De Maeseneer, MD1,
  2. Lutgarde De Prins, MA1,
  3. Christiane Gosset, MD2 and
  4. Jozef Heyerick, MD1
  1. 1Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  2. 2School of Public Health, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Jan M. De Maeseneer, MD Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care University of Ghent De Pintelaan 185 Ghent, B-9000 Belgium jan.demaeseneer{at}rug.ac.be

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