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Sociodemographic Characteristics of Communities Served by Retail Clinics

Rena Rudavsky and Ateev Mehrotra
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2010, 23 (1) 42-48; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2010.01.090033
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