Gastroenterology
Volume 129, Issue 2 , Pages 748-750 , August 2005

Reducing the Risk That Patients Get It Wrong

  • Steven Woloshin

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, Veterans Affairs Outcomes Group (111B), Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont 05009. fax: (802) 296-6325.
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  • Lisa M. Schwartz

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 Supported by a Research Enhancement Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs. S.W. and L.M.S. were supported by Veterans Affairs Advanced Research Career Development Awards in Health Services Research and Development and Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Faculty Scholar Awards, and a National Cancer Institute grant (CA 104721).

 The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States Government.The authors thank H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH for his thoughtful review of this editorial.S.W. and L.M.S. contributed equally to this work, and the order of their names is arbitrary.

PII: S0016-5085(05)01197-2

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.06.035

Gastroenterology
Volume 129, Issue 2 , Pages 748-750 , August 2005

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