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Improving Health Care for Patients with Multimorbidity: A Mixed-Methods Study to Explore the Feasibility and Process of Aligning Scheduled Outpatient Appointments through Collaboration between Medical Specialties Cover

Improving Health Care for Patients with Multimorbidity: A Mixed-Methods Study to Explore the Feasibility and Process of Aligning Scheduled Outpatient Appointments through Collaboration between Medical Specialties

International Journal of Integrated Care
Volume 22 (2022): Issue 1
By: Cathrine Bell,  Charlotte Weiling Appel,  Anne Frølich,  Anders Prior and  Peter Vedsted  
Open Access
|Mar 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.6013 | Journal eISSN: 1568-4156
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 2, 2021
Accepted on: Feb 19, 2022
Published on: Mar 1, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
integrated care,
ambulatory care,
multimorbidity,
outpatients,
appointments and schedules,
delivery of health care

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