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Expanding Access to Colorectal Cancer Screening: Benchmarking Quality Indicators in a Primary Care Colonoscopy Program

David A. McClellan, Chinedum O. Ojinnaka, Robert Pope, John Simmons, Katie Fuller, Andrew Richardson, Janet W. Helduser, Phillip Nash, Marcia G. Ory and Jane N. Bolin
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2015, 28 (6) 713-721; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.06.140342

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