The Complexity of Complex Patients

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Monika M Safford. J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Dec.

. 2015 Dec;30(12):1724-5.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-015-3472-6.

¹ University of Alabama, Medical Towers 643, 1717 11th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, 35294-4410, USA. msafford@uab.edu.

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Evaluating a Model to Predict Primary Care Physician-Defined Complexity in a Large Academic Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network.
Hong CS, Atlas SJ, Ashburner JM, Chang Y, He W, Ferris TG, Grant RW. Hong CS, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Dec;30(12):1741-7. doi: 10.1007/s11606-015-3357-8. J Gen Intern Med. 2015. PMID: 26048275 Free PMC article.

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