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No Longer Simply a Practice-based Research Network (PBRN): Health Improvement Networks

Robert L. Williams and Robert L. Rhyne
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine September 2011, 24 (5) 485-488; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2011.05.110102
Robert L. Williams
the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
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