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EDITORIAL

Guideline evaluation: tricky business

Jeffrey D. Klausner
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A STD Prevention and Control Services Section, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA.

B Divisions of AIDS and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1360 Mission Street, Suite #401, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Email: Jeff.Klausner@sfdph.org

Sexual Health 4(4) 253-254 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH07091
Submitted: 9 November 2007  Accepted: 12 November 2007   Published: 23 November 2007


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