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Practice Guideline
. 2017 Sep 11;189(36):E1137-E1145.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170118.

Recommendations on screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in primary care

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
Practice Guideline

Recommendations on screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in primary care

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: James Dickinson reports grants from the Public Health Agency of Canada, during the conduct of the study, and is an author on a recent paper reporting the West Australian trial of aortic aneurysm screening. No other competing interests were declared.

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