Racial Categories in Medicine: a Failure of Evidence-based Practice?

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2007 Sep 28

PMID 17896860

Citations 14

Authors

George T H Ellison

Andrew Smart

Richard Tutton

Simon M Outram

Richard Ashcroft

Paul Martin

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