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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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vol. 166 no. 8 1049-1055
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  1. Lynn Marshall*,
  2. Erica Weir†,
  3. Alan Abelsohn‡,
  4. Margaret D. Sanborn§
  1. 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.
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr. Lynn Marshall, Medical Director, Environmental Health Clinic, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Rm. 538, 76 Grenville St., Toronto ON M5S 1B2
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