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Fahima Dossa1, Nancy N Baxter1
1Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and Department of Surgery, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada.
The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology
|August 9, 2017
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