Appropriateness of healthcare interventions: concepts and scoping of the published literature.

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Published in Int J Technol Assess Health Care on January 01, 2008

Authors

Claudia Sanmartin1, Kellie Murphy, Nicole Choptain, Barbara Conner-Spady, Lindsay McLaren, Eric Bohm, Michael J Dunbar, Suren Sanmugasunderam, Carolyn De Coster, John McGurran, Diane L Lorenzetti, Tom Noseworthy

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Claudia.Sanmartin@statcan.ca

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