Daring to Draw Causal Claims from Non-randomized Studies of Primary Care Interventions

Overview

Journal Fam Pract

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Public Health

Date 2018 Jun 19

PMID 29912314

Citations 5

Authors

Nadia Sourial

Cristina Longo

Isabelle Vedel

Tibor Schuster

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