Ontario's primary care reforms have transformed the local care landscape, but a plan is needed for ongoing improvement.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Health Affairs

• Publication date

  2013-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.1087PMID 23569049
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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