Conducting a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature on access to healthcare by vulnerable groups

BMC Medical Research Methodology - Tập 6 Số 1 - 2006
Mary Dixon‐Woods1, Debbie Cavers, Shona Agarwal, Ellen Annandale, Antony Arthur, Janet Harvey, Ron Hsu, Savita Katbamna, Richard Olsen, Lucy Smith, Richard D Riley, Alex J. Sutton
1Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, 22-28 Princess Road West, Leicester LE1 6TP, UK. [email protected]

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