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Not Telehealth: Which Primary Care Visits Need In-Person Care?

Yalda Jabbarpour, Anuradha Jetty, Matthew Westfall and John Westfall
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine February 2021, 34 (Supplement) S162-S169; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2021.S1.200247
Yalda Jabbarpour
From the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care, Washington, DC (YJ, AJ, JW); Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA (MW).
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Anuradha Jetty
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Matthew Westfall
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John Westfall
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