Research ArticleOriginal Research

Building a Foundation to Reduce Health Inequities: Routine Collection of Sociodemographic Data in Primary Care

Andrew D. Pinto, Gabriela Glattstein-Young, Anthony Mohamed, Gary Bloch, Fok-Han Leung and Richard H. Glazier
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2016, 29 (3) 348-355; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2016.03.150280

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