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Efficacy versus effectiveness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Carlo A. Perucci  and
Marina Davoli
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 163 - 169
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