38 FACTORS MOTIVATING PHYSICIANS TO HIRE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS IN RURAL OFFICE PRACTICES
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Approaches to urinary incontinence in a rural population: a comparison of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and family physicians.
BACKGROUND Although urinary incontinence is a challenge and a burden to older patients, many clinicians fail to query older patients about incontinence symptoms or, even when aware of a problem, fail to diagnose the underlying cause or recommend treatment. We wanted to compare the approaches of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and family physicians to detection, diagnosis, and initial...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-197804001-00043