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Pets' Impact on Your Patients' Health: Leveraging Benefits and Mitigating Risk

Kate Hodgson, Luisa Barton, Marcia Darling, Viola Antao, Florence A. Kim and Alan Monavvari
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July 2015, 28 (4) 526-534; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.04.140254
Kate Hodgson
From Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine (KH), and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (VA, FAK, AM), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Nurse Practitioner Prorgam, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (LB); and Independent Consultant (MD).
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Luisa Barton
From Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine (KH), and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (VA, FAK, AM), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Nurse Practitioner Prorgam, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (LB); and Independent Consultant (MD).
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Marcia Darling
From Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine (KH), and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (VA, FAK, AM), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Nurse Practitioner Prorgam, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (LB); and Independent Consultant (MD).
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Viola Antao
From Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine (KH), and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (VA, FAK, AM), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Nurse Practitioner Prorgam, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (LB); and Independent Consultant (MD).
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Florence A. Kim
From Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine (KH), and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (VA, FAK, AM), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Nurse Practitioner Prorgam, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (LB); and Independent Consultant (MD).
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Alan Monavvari
From Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine (KH), and the Department of Family and Community Medicine (VA, FAK, AM), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Nurse Practitioner Prorgam, School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (LB); and Independent Consultant (MD).
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