Here is the original reference to the February, 2007, 3-page consensus document that describes the Joint Principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home. It was
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Note that the following write-up is now almost 20 years old! (How did that happen?) Amazingly, the debate about the role and frequency of mammography
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