Challenges to primary care from co- and multi-morbidity
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Challenges to primary care from co- and multi-morbidity.
Medical education is based largely on the challenges of providing high-quality care for specific diseases. Most learning in medical school is carried out by teacher-researchers with expertise in one particular disease or, at best, teachers with special knowledge in one type of disease or an intervention to treat or manage one type of health problem, leading to health care in many countries bein...
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عنوان ژورنال: Primary Health Care Research & Development
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1463-4236,1477-1128
DOI: 10.1017/s1463423610000484