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Establishing Internationally Accepted Conceptual and Operational Definitions of Social Prescribing Through Expert Consensus: A Delphi Study Protocol

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|Jan 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.6984 | Journal eISSN: 1568-4156
Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 2, 2022
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Accepted on: Jan 17, 2023
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Published on: Jan 25, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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