Educational outreach to general practitioners reduces children's asthma symptoms: A cluster randomised controlled trial

Implementation Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Zwarenstein, Merrick ^a,g   Bheekie, Angeni ⁱ   Lombard, Carl ^b   Swingler, George ^c   Ehrlich, Rodney ^c   Eccles, Martin ^d   Sladden, Michael ^h   Pather, Sandra ^c   Grimshaw, Jeremy ^e   Oxman, Andrew D ^f  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f Norwegian Health Services Research Centre   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349036269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-2-30     Document Type: Article

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