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Attribution. Freya Davies; Michelle Edwards; Delyth Price; Pippa Anderson; Andrew Carson-Stevens; Mazhar Choudhry et al. (2024). Evaluation of different models of general practitioners working in or alongside emergency departments: a mixed-methods realist evaluation. National Institute for Health and Care Research. Copyright © 2024 Davies et al. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. NCBI Bookshelf NBK603513. CC BY 4.0. Original source ↗. Text reproduced from the Bookshelf XML without changing wording; figures, images and supplements are not reproduced.

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