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Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries

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In this article, the authors present a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) based approach to the quality of care in primary care and family care settings, and cite 1 time.
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