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How Can Practice-based Research Contribute to the Elimination of Health Disparities?

George Rust and Lisa A. Cooper
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2007, 20 (2) 105-114; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2007.02.060131

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