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. 2019 May 20:365:l1868.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.l1868.

Asking the right question: implementation research to accelerate national non-communicable disease responses

David H Peters  1 , Michael A Peters  1 , Kremlin Wickramasinghe  2 , Patrick L Osewe  3 , Patricia M Davidson  4
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Asking the right question: implementation research to accelerate national non-communicable disease responses

David H Peters et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Non-communicable disease programmes can be strengthened by systematically identifying implementation challenges and translating them into questions that can be answered through appropriate research, say David H Peters and colleagues

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

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