Abstract
Care by family practitioners in the community involves caring for people in their own homes as well as in practice premises, in hospitals and in other units. Home visiting (or house calls) must be an essential part of good family practice.
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Grabinar, J., Davie, G., Stewart, W., Fraser, A. (1983). House calls — more or less?. In: Fry, J. (eds) Common Dilemmas in Family Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9192-3_12
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