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Impacts of Operational Failures on Primary Care Physicians’ Work: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Literature

Carol Sinnott, Alexandros Georgiadis, John Park and Mary Dixon-Woods
The Annals of Family Medicine March 2020, 18 (2) 159-168; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2485
Carol Sinnott
1THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
MB, BAO, BCh, MMedSci, PhD, MICGP, MRCPI
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Alexandros Georgiadis
1THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2ICON Plc, The Translation & Innovation Hub Building, Imperial College London, LondonUnited Kingdom
MSc, PgDip, PhD
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John Park
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vol. 18 no. 2 159-168
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2485
PubMed 
32152021

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The Annals of Family Medicine
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1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication January 8, 2019
  • Revision received July 11, 2019
  • Accepted for publication July 22, 2019
  • Published online March 9, 2020.

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  1. Carol Sinnott, MB, BAO, BCh, MMedSci, PhD, MICGP, MRCPI1⇑,
  2. Alexandros Georgiadis, MSc, PgDip, PhD1,2,
  3. John Park, MB, ChB3 and
  4. Mary Dixon-Woods, DPhil
  1. 1THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  2. 2ICON Plc, The Translation & Innovation Hub Building, Imperial College London, LondonUnited Kingdom
  3. 3Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Carol Sinnott, MB, BAO, BCh, MMedSci, PhD, MICGP, MRCPI, THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), Clifford Allbutt Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK CB2 OAH, cs926{at}medschl.cam.ac.uk

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