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Reliability of Peer Review of Abstracts Submitted to Academic Family Medicine Meetings

Joshua J. Fenton, Hazel Tapp, Netra M. Thakur and Andrea L. Pfeifle
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2020, 33 (6) 986-991; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.06.200123
Joshua J. Fenton
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis (JJF); Center for Primary Care Research, Department of Family Medicine, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC (HT); University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Advance Community Health Center, Raleigh (NMT); School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis (ALP).
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Hazel Tapp
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis (JJF); Center for Primary Care Research, Department of Family Medicine, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC (HT); University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Advance Community Health Center, Raleigh (NMT); School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis (ALP).
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Netra M. Thakur
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis (JJF); Center for Primary Care Research, Department of Family Medicine, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC (HT); University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Advance Community Health Center, Raleigh (NMT); School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis (ALP).
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Andrea L. Pfeifle
From the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis (JJF); Center for Primary Care Research, Department of Family Medicine, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC (HT); University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Advance Community Health Center, Raleigh (NMT); School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis (ALP).
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