Research ArticleOriginal Research

Continuity of Care and Avoidable Hospitalizations for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

I-Po Lin, Shiao-Chi Wu and Shu-Tzu Huang
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2015, 28 (2) 222-230; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.02.140141

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