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Back to the future: home-based primary care for older homebound Canadians

Part 1: where we are now

Nathan Stall, Mark Nowaczynski and Samir K. Sinha
Canadian Family Physician March 2013; 59 (3) 237-240;
Nathan Stall
First-year resident in internal medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
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vol. 59 no. 3 237-240
PubMed 
23486788

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0008-350X
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1715-5258
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  • Published online March 13, 2013.

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  1. Nathan Stall, MD
  1. First-year resident in internal medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
  1. Mark Nowaczynski, PhD MD CCFP FCFP
  1. Clinical Director of House Calls: Interdisciplinary Mobile Team Serving Frail Seniors at Senior Peoples’ Resources in North Toronto (SPRINT), and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
  1. Samir K. Sinha, MD DPhil FRCPC⇓
  1. Director of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network hospitals in Toronto, Provincial Lead for Ontario’s Seniors Strategy, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  1. Correspondence: Dr Samir K. Sinha, Mount Sinai Hospital, Suite 475, 600 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5; telephone 416 586-4800, extension 7859; fax 416 586-5113; e-mail ssinha{at}mtsinai.on.ca

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