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Letters, numbers, symbols and words: how to communicate grades of evidence and recommendations
Holger J. Schünemann, Dana Best, Gunn Vist, Andrew D. Oxman and for The GRADE Working Group
CMAJ September 30, 2003 169 (7) 677-680;
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Dana Best
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