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Developing Electronic Health Record (EHR) Strategies Related to Health Center Patients' Social Determinants of Health

Rachel Gold, Erika Cottrell, Arwen Bunce, Mary Middendorf, Celine Hollombe, Stuart Cowburn, Peter Mahr and Gerardo Melgar
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July 2017, 30 (4) 428-447; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2017.04.170046

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