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‘Meeting People Where They’re At’: Experiences of Family Physicians Engaging Women Who Use Illicit Drugs

Susan Woolhouse, Judith Belle Brown and Amardeep Thind
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2011, 9 (3) 244-249; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1225
Susan Woolhouse
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vol. 9 no. 3 244-249
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1225
PubMed 
21555752

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication June 24, 2010
  • Revision received October 15, 2010
  • Accepted for publication November 1, 2010
  • Published online May 9, 2011.

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  1. Susan Woolhouse, MD, MClSc, CCFP1,
  2. Judith Belle Brown, PhD2 and
  3. Amardeep Thind, MD, PhD3
  1. 1South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  2. 2Department of Family Medicine, the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and the School of Social Work, King’s University College, the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
  3. 3Department of Family Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Susan Woolhouse, MD, MClSc, CCFP, South Riverdale Community Health Centre, 955 Queen St E, Toronto, ON M4M 3P3, Canada, swoolhouse{at}srchc.com
  1. Findings from this study were presented at the North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Conference, November 15–19, 2008, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

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