The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 123, Issue 2 , Pages 99-100 , February 2010

Tell Me Something New: Report Cards and the Referring Physician

  • Andrew J. Epstein, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Conn, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
    • ,
  • J. Niels Rosenquist, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

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 Funding: None.

 Conflict of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to report.

 Authorship: Both authors contributed to writing the manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(09)00799-2

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.08.010

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 123, Issue 2 , Pages 99-100 , February 2010

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