Reducing Acute Care Using a Community Care Coordination Network
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William P. Moran, MD, Catherine H. Messick, MD, James L. Wofford, MD, John S. Preisser, PhD, G. John Chen, MD, PhD, Arden Sheehan RN, Dorothy L. Currin, Greg Russell, MS, Mark Wright, Ramon Velez, MD, MSc, and the Community Care Coordination Network Departments of Internal Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Bowman Gray School of Medicine ofWake Forest University, Reynolds Health Center, and Wright System Solutions Inc., Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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