Physician-Elder Interaction in Community Family Practice
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Physician-elder interaction in community family practice.
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1557-2625,1558-7118
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.17.1.19