Effect of providing information about normal test results on patients' reassurance: randomised controlled trial

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  British medical journal

• Publication date

  2007-01-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1136/bmj.39093.464190.55PMID 17259186PMCID PMC1800996
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• Competing interests: none declared.

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