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- Published online May 24, 2004.
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- G. Ross Baker,
- Peter G. Norton,
- Virginia Flintoft,
- Régis Blais,
- Adalsteinn Brown,
- Jafna Cox,
- Ed Etchells,
- William A. Ghali,
- Philip Hébert,
- Sumit R. Majumdar,
- Maeve O'Beirne,
- Luz Palacios-Derflingher,
- Robert J. Reid,
- Sam Sheps,
- Robyn Tamblyn
- From the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (Baker, Flintoft, Brown) and of Medicine (Etchells, Hébert), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Family Medicine (Norton, O'Beirne, Palacios-Derflingher), Medicine and Community Health Sciences (Ghali), and the Centre for Health and Policy Studies (Ghali), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; the Department of Health Administration, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Que. (Blais); the Division of Cardiology, Departments of Medicine and of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Cox); the Division of General Internal Medicine and Patient Safety Service (Etchells), and the Department of Family Medicine (Hébert), Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont.; the Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta. (Majumdar); the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Wash. (Reid); the Department of Health Care Epidemiology and the Western Regional Training Centre for Health Services Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Sheps); and the Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montréal, Que. (Tamblyn)
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