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Carl van Walraven, MD MSc, Monica Taljaard, PhD, Chaim M. Bell, MD PhD, Edward Etchells, MD MSc, Kelly B. Zarnke, MD, Ian G. Stiell, MD MSc and Alan J. Forster, MD MSc

From the Ottawa Health Research Institute (van Walraven, Taljaard, Stiell, Forster); the Departments of Medicine (van Walraven, Taljaard, Forster) and Emergency Medicine (Stiell), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (van Walraven); the Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation (Bell), University of Toronto; the Department of Medicine (Bell) and the Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Bell), St. Michael's Hospital; Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Etchells), Toronto, Ont.; and the Department of Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre (Zarnke), Calgary, Alta.


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  		Figure 1: Flow diagram showing recruitment and follow-up of patients to determine availability of information about postdischarge physician visits to subsequent physicians.

 

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