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“Do your homework…and then hope for the best”: the challenges that medical tourism poses to Canadian family physicians’ support of patients’ informed decision-making
BACKGROUND: Medical tourism—the practice where patients travel internationally to privately access medical care—may limit patients’ regular physicians’ abilities to contribute to the informed decision-making process. We address this issue by examining ways in which Canadian family doctors’ typical i...
Autores principales: | Snyder, Jeremy, Crooks, Valorie A, Johnston, Rory, Dharamsi, Shafik |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24053385 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-14-37 |
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