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As good as physicians: patient perceptions of physicians and non-physician clinicians in rural primary health centers in India

Krishna D Rao, Elizabeth Stierman, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Garima Gupta and Abdul Gaffar
Global Health: Science and Practice November 2013, 1(3):397-406; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00085
Krishna D Rao
aPublic Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
bJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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bJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Aarushi Bhatnagar
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cNational Health Resource Center, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India
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Krishna D Rao, Elizabeth Stierman, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Garima Gupta, Abdul Gaffar
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Krishna D Rao, Elizabeth Stierman, Aarushi Bhatnagar, Garima Gupta, Abdul Gaffar
Global Health: Science and Practice Nov 2013, 1 (3) 397-406; DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00085
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