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The Research Domain of Family Medicine

Larry A. Green
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2004, 2 (suppl 2) S23-S29; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.147
Larry A. Green
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The ecology of medical care revisited.

Note: All numbers refer to discrete individual persons and whether or not they received care in each setting in a typical month.

From: Green LA, Fryer GE Jr, Yawn BP, Lanier D, Dovey SM. The ecology of medical care revisited. N Engl J Med. 2001;344:2021–2025.10 Reprinted with permission from the Massachusetts Medical Society. Copyright© 2001 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.

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