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Douglas P Collins1, Sarah Carreira, Christopher R Bernheisel
1University of Cincinnati, Department of Family and Community Medicine; The Christ Hospital/ University of Cincinnati Family Medicine Residency Program, Ohio, USA.
The Journal of Family Practice
|October 30, 2014
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