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- Published online February 21, 2012.
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- Michael R. Law, PhD⇑,
- Lucy Cheng, MSc,
- Irfan A. Dhalla, MD MSc,
- Deborah Heard, BASc,
- Steven G. Morgan, PhD
- Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (Law, Cheng, Heard, Morgan), School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; the Department of Medicine (Dhalla), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Dhalla), St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (Dhalla), Toronto, Ont.
- Correspondence to:
Dr. Michael R. Law, mlaw{at}chspr.ubc.ca
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