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James A. Lopez Bernal, Christine Y. Lu, Antonio Gasparrini, Steven Cummins, J. Frank Wharham, Steven B. Soumerai
Association between the 2012 Health and Social Care Act and specialist visits and hospitalisations in England: A controlled interrupted time series analysis
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