Family Medicine & Primary Care Review
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Trust in family physician: a scale adaptation study

Mehmet Emin Kurt
1
,
Cuma Çakmak
1
,
Nurettin Menteş
2

  1. Department of Health Care Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey
  2. Department of Business, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 2025; 27(2): 184–189
Online publish date: 2025/06/27
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