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Assessing patient decisional conflict with a 4-item screening test

France Légaré, Stephen Kearing, Kate Clay, Susie Gagnon, Denis D’Amours, Michel Rousseau and Annette O’Connor
Canadian Family Physician August 2010; 56 (8) e308-e314;
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