The way forward: the International Primary Care Respiratory Group 2nd World Conference, Melbourne, 19–22 February 2004

Beilby, Justin J; Glasgow, Nicholas J; Fardy, H John

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06174.x

Topics

General medicine

Respiratory tract diseases

The IPCRG is fostering international links between primary care clinicians and researchers

1 General Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA.
2 Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, NSW.
3 Illawarra and Shoalhaven Medical Teaching Program, Wollongong, NSW.

Correspondence:

Competing interests:

H J F was paid to act as moderator, chairman and speaker at the AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline satellite symposia held outside the scientific conference program. No other competing interests were identified.

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