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Follow-Up and Follow-Through of Depressed Patients in Primary Care: The Critical Missing Components of Quality Care
Leif I. Solberg, Michael A. Trangle and Arthur P. Wineman
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Practice November 2005, 18 (6) 520-527; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.18.6.520
Leif I. Solberg
MD
Michael A. Trangle
MD

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Follow-Up and Follow-Through of Depressed Patients in Primary Care: The Critical Missing Components of Quality Care
Leif I. Solberg, Michael A. Trangle, Arthur P. Wineman
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Practice Nov 2005, 18 (6) 520-527; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.18.6.520
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