How valuable are systematic reviews for primary health care practitioners?
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
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Correspondence to: Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Head of Department, General Practice and Primary Health Care, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Email: f.goodyear-smith@auckland.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 9(2) 97-98 https://doi.org/10.1071/HCv9n2_ED2
Published: 30 June 2017
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2017.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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