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Direct Primary Care: Practice Distribution and Cost Across the Nation

Philip M. Eskew and Kathleen Klink
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 793-801; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.140337
Philip M. Eskew
From The Robert Graham Center, Washington, DC.
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