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Practice Guideline
. 2020 Mar 9;192(10):E240-E254.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.190777.

Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience

Kevin Pottie  1 , Claire E Kendall  2 , Tim Aubry  2 , Olivia Magwood  2 , Anne Andermann  2 , Ginetta Salvalaggio  2 , David Ponka  2 , Gary Bloch  2 , Vanessa Brcic  2 , Eric Agbata  2 , Kednapa Thavorn  2 , Terry Hannigan  2 , Andrew Bond  2 , Susan Crouse  2 , Ritika Goel  2 , Esther Shoemaker  2 , Jean Zhuo Jing Wang  2 , Sebastian Mott  2 , Harneel Kaur  2 , Christine Mathew  2 , Syeda Shanza Hashmi  2 , Ammar Saad  2 , Thomas Piggott  2 , Neil Arya  2 , Nicole Kozloff  2 , Michaela Beder  2 , Dale Guenter  2 , Wendy Muckle  2 , Stephen Hwang  2 , Vicky Stergiopoulos  2 , Peter Tugwell  2
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Practice Guideline

Clinical guideline for homeless and vulnerably housed people, and people with lived homelessness experience

Kevin Pottie et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Gary Bloch is a founding member, former board member and currently a clinician with Inner City Health Associates (ICHA), a group of physicians working with individuals experiencing homelessness in Toronto, which provided funding for the development of this guideline. He did not receive payment for work on the guideline and did not participate in any ICHA board decision-making relevant to this project. Ritika Goel, Michaela Beder and Stephen Hwang also receive payment for clinical services from ICHA, and did not receive payment for any aspect of the submitted work. No other competing interests were declared.

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