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. 2017 Sep;63(9):682-684.

Shared decision making in preventive health care: What it is; what it is not

Roland Grad  1 , France Légaré  2 , Neil R Bell  3 , James A Dickinson  4 , Harminder Singh  5 , Ainsley Elizabeth Moore  6 , Danielle Kasperavicius  7 , Kaylyn L Kretschmer  8
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Shared decision making in preventive health care: What it is; what it is not

Roland Grad et al. Can Fam Physician. 2017 Sep.
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Figure 1.
A 1000-person tool illustrating outcomes for 1000 eligible people screened for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography Reproduced from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care with permission.
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