Frequency of Patient-Physician Contact and Patient Outcomes in Hemodialysis Care
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Frequency of patient-physician contact and patient outcomes in hemodialysis care.
There is little evidence supporting the widespread belief that regular patient-physician contact in chronic disease management leads to better patient outcomes. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship of the frequency of patient-physician contact with several patient outcomes in a prospective cohort study begun in 1995 of incident hemodialysis patients treated at 75 US dialy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1046-6673,1533-3450
DOI: 10.1097/01.asn.0000106101.48237.9d