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List of works by Lisa R. Hirschhorn

A Clinical Mentorship and Quality Improvement Program to Support Health Center Nurses Manage Type 2 Diabetes in Rural Rwanda.

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A Novel Combined Mother-Infant Clinic to Optimize Post-Partum Maternal Retention, Service Utilization, and Linkage to Services in HIV Care in Rural Rwanda

scientific article published on January 2017

A Novel Scenario-Based Interview Tool to Evaluate Nontechnical Skills and Competencies in Global Health Delivery

scientific article published in August 2017

A framework for identifying and learning from countries that demonstrated exemplary performance in improving health outcomes and systems

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

A simplified echocardiographic strategy for heart failure diagnosis and management within an integrated noncommunicable disease clinic at district hospital level for sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 3 June 2013

Advancing the health of women and newborns: predictors of patient satisfaction among women attending antenatal and maternity care in rural Rwanda

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Applied statistical training to strengthen analysis and health research capacity in Rwanda

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Approaches to ensuring and improving quality in the context of health system strengthening: a cross-site analysis of the five African Health Initiative Partnership programs

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Are social support and HIV coping strategies associated with lower depression in adults on antiretroviral treatment? Evidence from rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Assessing the Integrated Community-Based Health Systems Strengthening initiative in northern Togo: a pragmatic effectiveness-implementation study protocol

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Assessment of Bypass of the Nearest Primary Health Care Facility Among Women in Ghana

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Association between country preparedness indicators and quality clinical care for cardiovascular disease risk factors in 44 lower- and middle-income countries: A multicountry analysis of survey data

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Availability of Safe Childbirth Supplies in 284 Facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Baseline assessment of adult and adolescent primary care delivery in Rwanda: an opportunity for quality improvement

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Bedside Availability of Prepared Oxytocin and Rapid Administration After Delivery to Prevent Postpartum Hemorrhage: An Observational Study in Karnataka, India

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Better Measurement for Performance Improvement in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) Experience of Conceptual Framework Development and Indicator Selection

scientific article published in December 2017

Better tests, better care: improved diagnostics for infectious diseases

scientific article published on December 2013

Beyond coverage: improving the quality of antenatal care delivery through integrated mentorship and quality improvement at health centers in rural Rwanda

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Black Cisgender Women's PrEP Knowledge, Attitudes, Preferences, and Experience in Chicago

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Can we improve the quality of documented end-of-life conversations using a structured, multicomponent intervention?

Cancer and the 'other' noncommunicable chronic diseases in older people living with HIV/AIDS in resource-limited settings: a challenge to success

scientific article published on July 2012

Care-seeking patterns among families that experienced under-five child mortality in rural Rwanda

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Causes of death and predictors of childhood mortality in Rwanda: a matched case-control study using verbal social autopsy

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Challenges and opportunities for expanding HIV care and treatment: what can be

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Changing the COVID-19 Narrative in Africa: Using an Implementation Research Lens to Understand Successes and Plan for Challenges Ahead

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Clinical mentorship to improve pediatric quality of care at the health centers in rural Rwanda: a qualitative study of perceptions and acceptability of health care workers

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Closing the delivery gap.

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Closing the delivery gaps in pediatric HIV care in Togo, West Africa: using the care delivery value chain framework to direct quality improvement

scientific article published on January 2016

Coaching Intensity, Adherence to Essential Birth Practices, and Health Outcomes in the BetterBirth Trial in Uttar Pradesh, India

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

Community-Based Accompaniment and the Impact of Distance for HIV Patients Newly Initiated on Antiretroviral Therapy: Early Outcomes and Clinic Visit Adherence in Rural Rwanda

scientific article published on 26 December 2016

Comprehensive and integrated district health systems strengthening: the Rwanda Population Health Implementation and Training (PHIT) Partnership

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Continuity in primary care: a critical but neglected component for achieving high-quality universal health coverage

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Correlations among measures of quality in HIV care in the United States: cross sectional study

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Cost of hospital-associated infections in Massachusetts

scientific article published on 25 December 2008

Cost-effectiveness of a mentorship and quality improvement intervention to enhance the quality of antenatal care at rural health centers in Rwanda

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Cost-effectiveness of an intervention to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients

scientific article published in December 2006

Data for Program Management: An Accuracy Assessment of Data Collected in Household Registers by Community Health Workers in Southern Kayonza, Rwanda

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Data-driven quality improvement in low-and middle-income country health systems: lessons from seven years of implementation experience across Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Demand-side interventions for maternal care: evidence of more use, not better outcomes

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Descriptive epidemiology and short-term outcomes of heart failure hospitalisation in rural Haiti

scientific article published on January 2016

Developing a Community of Practice for HIV Care: Supporting Knowledge Translation in a Regional Training Initiative

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Does adherence to evidence-based practices during childbirth prevent perinatal mortality? A post-hoc analysis of 3,274 births in Uttar Pradesh, India

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Does distance from a clinic and poverty impact visit adherence for noncommunicable diseases? A retrospective cohort study using electronic medical records in rural Haiti

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Economic evaluation of a mentorship and enhanced supervision program to improve quality of integrated management of childhood illness care in rural Rwanda.

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Effectiveness of a WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Coaching-based intervention on the availability of Essential Birth Supplies in Uttar Pradesh, India.

scientific article published in December 2018

Effectiveness of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program in reducing severe maternal, fetal, and newborn harm in Uttar Pradesh, India: study protocol for a matched-pair, cluster-randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 07 December 2016

Effects of a quality improvement collaborative on the outcome of care of patients with HIV infection: the EQHIV study

scientific article published on June 2004

Electronic Surveillance of Antibiotic Exposure and Coded Discharge Diagnoses as Indicators of Postoperative Infection and Other Quality Assurance Measures

scientific article published in 1993

Electronic surveillance of antibiotic exposure and coded discharge diagnoses as indicators of postoperative infection and other quality assurance measures.

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Empanelment: A foundational component of primary health care

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Ensuring quality of care in the scale-up of HIV care and treatment in resource-limited settings: a challenge for all

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Estimating health workforce needs for antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings

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Estimating the Benefits of Antiretroviral Therapy Programs: How Certain Can We Get?

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Evaluation of a call center to assess post-discharge maternal and early neonatal outcomes of facility-based childbirth in Uttar Pradesh, India

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Evaluation of an Electronic Algorithm for Identifying Cisgender Female Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Candidates

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Evaluation of regional HIV provider quality groups to improve care for people living with HIV served in the United States

scientific article published in August 2012

Expectations of healthcare quality: A cross-sectional study of internet users in 12 low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Exploring Drivers of Infant Deaths in Rural Rwanda Through Verbal Social Autopsy

scientific article published in September 2017

Facility management associated with improved primary health care outcomes in Ghana

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Factors associated with different patterns of nonadherence to HIV care in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

scientific article published on 26 December 2012

Four delays of child mortality in Rwanda: a mixed methods analysis of verbal social autopsies

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

From scaling up to sustainability in HIV: potential lessons for moving forward

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Gender differences in quality of HIV care in Ryan White CARE Act-funded clinics

scientific article published on May 2006

Genetic variation in alkaline phosphatase of the house mouse (Mus musculus) with emphasis on a manganese-requiring isozyme

scientific article published on 01 December 1979

Get PrEPPT (pre-exposure prophylaxis and pregnancy termination): an exploration of the values, attitudes and preferences regarding HIV and PrEP among women seeking abortion

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Going beyond the vertical: leveraging a national HIV quality improvement programme to address other health priorities in Haiti

scientific article published on July 2015

HIV morbidity and mortality in Jamaica: analysis of national surveillance data, 1993--2005.

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HIV/AIDS patients’ perspectives on adhering to regimens containing protease inhibitors ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1998

Health systems thinking: A new generation of research to improve healthcare quality

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Health worker attrition at a rural district hospital in Rwanda: a need for improved placement and retention strategies

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

Health-care worker engagement in HIV-related quality improvement in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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High Poverty and Hardship Financing Among Patients with Noncommunicable Diseases in Rural Haiti

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution

scientific article published on 5 September 2018

Hospital staffing and health care-associated infections: a systematic review of the literature.

scientific article published on October 2008

Hospital-Level Cardiovascular Management Practices in Kerala, India

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

How ready is the system to deliver primary healthcare? Results of a primary health facility assessment in Enugu State, Nigeria

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Impact of a district-wide health center strengthening intervention on healthcare utilization in rural Rwanda: Use of interrupted time series analysis

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Impact of a health system strengthening intervention on maternal and child health outputs and outcomes in rural Rwanda 2005-2010.

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Implementation Research: An Efficient and Effective Tool to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Implementation Science for Global Oncology: The Imperative to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Cancer Care Delivery

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Implementation and results of an integrated data quality assurance protocol in a randomized controlled trial in Uttar Pradesh, India

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Implementing an integrated community based health systems strengthening approach to improve HIV survival in Northern Togo

Implementing sustainable primary healthcare reforms: strategies from Costa Rica

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Implementing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist: lessons from a global collaboration.

scientific article published on 19 August 2017

Implementing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist: lessons learnt on a quality improvement initiative to improve mother and newborn care at Gobabis District Hospital, Namibia

Implementing, improving and learning: cross-country lessons learned from the African Health Initiative

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Improved quality of HIV care over time among participants in a national quality improvement initiative

scientific article published in August 2012

Improving Adherence to Essential Birth Practices Using the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist With Peer Coaching: Experience From 60 Public Health Facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India

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Improving data quality across 3 sub-Saharan African countries using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR): results from the African Health Initiative

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Improving district facility readiness: a 12-month evaluation of a data-driven health systems strengthening intervention in rural Rwanda

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In vitro activity of two new aryl-fluoroquinolone antimicrobial agents, difloxacin (A-56619) and A-56620 compared to that of other antimicrobial agents.

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Integrated clinical and quality improvement coaching in Son La Province, Vietnam: a model of building public sector capacity for sustainable HIV care delivery

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Integrating implementation science into covid-19 response and recovery

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Integrating noncommunicable disease services into primary health care, Botswana

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Integration of the Opportunity-Ability-Motivation behavior change framework into a coaching-based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program in India

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Interdisciplinary HIV care in a changing healthcare environment in the USA.

scientific article published on 6 November 2013

It takes a community: a landscape analysis of global health research consortia

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Kaposi's sarcoma in women with AIDS.

scientific article published on September 1996

Landscape of HIV Implementation Research Funded by the National Institutes of Health: A Mapping Review of Project Abstracts

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Learning before leaping: integration of an adaptive study design process prior to initiation of BetterBirth, a large-scale randomized controlled trial in Uttar Pradesh, India

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Learning from Exemplars in Global Health: a road map for mitigating indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Level of confidence in and endorsement of the health system among internet users in 12 low-income and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Leveraging community health worker system to map a mountainous rural district in low resource setting: a low-cost approach to expand use of geographic information systems for public health

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Local use of geographic information systems to improve data utilisation and health services: mapping caesarean section coverage in rural Rwanda

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Making Universal Access a Reality—What More Do We Need to Know?

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Making the case for better integration of cervical cancer screening and treatment for HIV-infected women attending care and treatment clinics in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

scientific article published on 19 April 2012

Mentoring and quality improvement strengthen integrated management of childhood illness implementation in rural Rwanda

scientific article published on 12 May 2014

Mentorship and coaching to support strengthening healthcare systems: lessons learned across the five Population Health Implementation and Training partnership projects in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

National Response to COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea and Lessons Learned for Other Countries

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Non-communicable diseases and HIV care and treatment: models of integrated service delivery

scientific article published on 24 May 2017

Nosocomial colonization and infection in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus

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Nurse mentorship to improve the quality of health care delivery in rural Rwanda

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

One-year outcomes of women started on antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy before and after the implementation of Option B+ in Malawi: A retrospective chart review

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Optimizing the development and evaluation of complex interventions: lessons learned from the BetterBirth Program and associated trial

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Outcomes of a Coaching-Based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program in India

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PHC Progression Model: a novel mixed-methods tool for measuring primary health care system capacity

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Patient satisfaction with HIV/AIDS care at private clinics in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

scientific article published on 6 February 2014

Patient-Reported Factors Facilitating Participation in Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Programs in Kara, Togo, West Africa

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Physician specialization and the quality of care for human immunodeficiency virus infection

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Preliminary validation of the PRImary care facility Management Evaluation tool (PRIME-Tool), a national facility management survey implemented in Ghana

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Preparedness of HIV care and treatment clinics for the management of concomitant non-communicable diseases: a cross-sectional survey

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Prevalence and factors associated with burnout among frontline primary health care providers in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

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Prevalence and factors associated with burnout among frontline primary health care providers in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

scientific article published in 2018

Primary Health Care That Works: The Costa Rican Experience

scientific article published in March 2017

Primary Health Care as a Foundation for Strengthening Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

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Primary healthcare system performance in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the evidence from 2010 to 2017

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Proceedings from the 9th annual conference on the science of dissemination and implementation: Washington, DC, USA. 14-15 December 2016.

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Quality improvement and emerging global health priorities.

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Quality improvement in emergency obstetric referrals: qualitative study of provider perspectives in Assin North District, Ghana

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Quality of HIV care provided by nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians

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Race to the Top: evaluation of a novel performance-based financing initiative to promote healthcare delivery in rural Rwanda

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Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes

scientific article published on 07 July 2017

Reported care quality in federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program supported networks of HIV/AIDS care

scientific article published on June 2009

Research for change: using implementation research to strengthen HIV care and treatment scale-up in resource-limited settings.

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Research versus practice in quality improvement? Understanding how we can bridge the gap.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Response of Lymphoepithelial Parotid Cysts to Antiretroviral Treatment in HIV-Infected Adults

scientific article published on March 15, 1998

Roadmap to an effective quality improvement and patient safety program implementation in a rural hospital setting

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Scaling-up the All Babies Count programme to eliminate preventable neonatal deaths in Rwanda: experiences midway through implementation

scholarly article by Merab Nyishime et al published March 2019 in The Lancet Global Health

Stress, motivation and professional satisfaction among health care workers in HIV/AIDS care and treatment centers in urban Tanzania: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on March 2011

Successful implementation of a combined learning collaborative and mentoring intervention to improve neonatal quality of care in rural Rwanda

scholarly article by Jennifer Werdenberg et al published 4 December 2018 in BMC Health Services Research

The 5S-5M-5C schematic: transforming primary care inputs to outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries

The All Babies Count Initiative: Impact of a Health System Improvement Approach on Neonatal Care and Outcomes in Rwanda

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

The BetterBirth Program: Pursuing Effective Adoption and Sustained Use of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Through Coaching-Based Implementation in Uttar Pradesh, India

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The Impact of a Quality Improvement Program on Systems, Processes, and Structures in Medical Clinics

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

The association between quality of HIV care, loss to follow-up and mortality in pediatric and adolescent patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in Nigeria

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The cost-effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy for treating HIV disease in the Caribbean

scientific article published on December 2007

The race to the top initiative: towards excellence in health-care service delivery

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The reliability of survey assessments of characteristics of medical clinics

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The status of Ghanaian community health workers' supervision and service delivery: descriptive analyses from the 2017 Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 survey

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Toward utilization of data for program management and evaluation: quality assessment of five years of health management information system data in Rwanda

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Towards patient-centred care in Ghana: health system responsiveness, self-rated health and experiential quality in a nationally representative survey

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Towards universal health coverage: an evaluation of Rwanda Mutuelles in its first eight years

scientific article published in 2012

Training And Supervision Did Not Meaningfully Improve Quality Of Care For Pregnant Women Or Sick Children In Sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published in September 2016

Transdermal Testosterone Administration in Women with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Wasting: A Pilot Study

scientific article published in August 1998

Update of: Kara et al., The BetterBirth Program: Pursuing Effective Adoption and Sustained Use of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Through Coaching-Based Implementation in Uttar Pradesh, India.

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Update of: Marx Delaney et al., Improving Adherence to Essential Birth Practices Using the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist With Peer Coaching: Experience From 60 Public Health Facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Using implementation science to mitigate worsening health inequities in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Utilizing community health worker data for program management and evaluation: systems for data quality assessments and baseline results from Rwanda

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Validating five questions of antiretroviral nonadherence in a public-sector treatment program in rural South Africa

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What kind of evidence do we need to strengthen primary healthcare in the 21st century?

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

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