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  1. Birmingham VA Medical Center and the Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

    Catarina I. Kiefe MD, PhD

  2. VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Anne Sales MSN, PhD, RN

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Kiefe, C.I., Sales, A. A state-of-the-art conference on implementing evidence in health care. J Gen Intern Med 21 (Suppl 2), S67–S70 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-006-0278-6

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