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Maximizing womens' health benefits when resources are limited
11-13-2006 · EurekAlert!Jane Kim and colleagues (Harvard University) have developed an analytic framework to identify an optimal package of health services to offer to women attending a clinic once for their lifetime cervical cancer screen.
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