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Jill Eden, Laura Levit, Alfred Berg, and Sally Morton, Editors; Committee

on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness

Research; Institute of Medicine

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Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews

Committee on Standards for Systematic

Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Board on Health Care Services

Jill Eden, Laura Levit, Alfred Berg, and Sally Morton, Editors

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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Standards for Systematic Reviews of

Comparative Effectiveness Research.

Finding what works in health care : standards for systematic reviews / Committee

on Standards for Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness Research, Board on

Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies ; Jill Eden ... [et al.],

editors.

p. ; cm.

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