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A Primary Care Panel Size of 2500 Is neither Accurate nor Reasonable

Melanie Raffoul, Miranda Moore, Doug Kamerow and Andrew Bazemore
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July 2016, 29 (4) 496-499; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2016.04.150317

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