Pursuing Gender Equity by Paying for What Matters in Primary Care.

N Engl J Med

From the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Primary Care Center of Excellence, Brigham and Women's Hospital (L.R., R.G.), the Departments of Medicine (L.R., R.G.) and Healthcare Policy (B.L.), Harvard Medical School, and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (B.L.) - all in Boston.

Published: July 2023

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