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Online supplementary section

‘Telephone Triage’: a possible means of managing the after-hours patient load at primary health care facilities in South Africa

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Pages 219-224 | Received 27 Apr 2018, Accepted 21 Jul 2018, Published online: 15 Sep 2018

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