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Teamlets in Primary Care: Enhancing the Patient and Clinician Experience

Thomas Bodenheimer and Rachel Willard-Grace
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2016, 29 (1) 135-138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2016.01.150176
Thomas Bodenheimer
From the Center for Excellence in Primary Care, University of California, San Francisco.
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Rachel Willard-Grace
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