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Identifying and managing adverse environmental health effects: 1. Taking an exposure history
Lynn Marshall, Erica Weir, Alan Abelsohn and Margaret D. Sanborn
CMAJ April 16, 2002 166 (8) 1049-1055;
Lynn Marshall
From *the Environmental Health Clinic, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont.; †the Community Medicine Residency Program, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and §the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; and ‡the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Erica Weir
From *the Environmental Health Clinic, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont.; †the Community Medicine Residency Program, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and §the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; and ‡the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Alan Abelsohn
From *the Environmental Health Clinic, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont.; †the Community Medicine Residency Program, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and §the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; and ‡the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Margaret D. Sanborn
From *the Environmental Health Clinic, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont.; †the Community Medicine Residency Program, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and §the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; and ‡the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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