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Specialty Referral Completion Among Primary Care Patients: Results From the ASPN Referral Study

Christopher B. Forrest, Efrat Shadmi, Paul A. Nutting and Barbara Starfield
The Annals of Family Medicine July 2007, 5 (4) 361-367; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.703
Christopher B. Forrest
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Paul A. Nutting
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vol. 5 no. 4 361-367
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.703
PubMed 
17664503

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication December 18, 2005
  • Revision received February 17, 2007
  • Accepted for publication February 22, 2007
  • Published online July 30, 2007.

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  1. Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD1,
  2. Efrat Shadmi, PhD, RN2,
  3. Paul A. Nutting, MD, MSPH3 and
  4. Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH4
  1. 1Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsyl-vania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa
  2. 2Department of Nursing, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
  3. 3Center for Research Strategies and the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colo
  4. 4Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD, Abramson Research Center 1335, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, forrestc{at}email.chop.edu

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