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Fed Pract. 2016 Aug;33(8):32-36.

Characteristics of High-Functioning Collaborations Between Primary Care and Podiatry in VHA Patient Aligned Care Teams.

Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS

Jeffrey M Robbins, James S Wrobel, Susan Kirsh, Leonard Pogach

Affiliations

  1. is a clinical associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. is an associate professor and is a clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. is a professor of preventative medicine and community health at Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School in Newark. Dr. Robbins is a podiatrist and is a physician, both at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC in Ohio. Dr. Pogach is a physician at the VA New Jersey Health Care System in East Orange, New Jersey.

PMID: 30766197 PMCID: PMC6366604

Abstract

The key to high-functioning PACT/Podiatry teams rests with the quality of the communication between providers.

Conflict of interest statement

Author disclosures The authors report no actual or potential conflicts of interest with regard to this article.

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