. 2020 Oct;66(10):723-725.

Engaging physicians to prescribe more cost-effectively: Blueprint for change

Affiliations

¹ General practitioner and Principal Investigator and Founder of PrimeHealth Clinical Research in Toronto, Ont. i.gor@outlook.com.
² Clinical Research Fellow at the Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto.
³ Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Professor Emeritus in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto, and an emergency physician in the University Health Network.

Iris Gorfinkel et al. Can Fam Physician. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;66(10):723-725.

¹ General practitioner and Principal Investigator and Founder of PrimeHealth Clinical Research in Toronto, Ont. i.gor@outlook.com.
² Clinical Research Fellow at the Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto.
³ Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Professor Emeritus in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto, and an emergency physician in the University Health Network.

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