Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 334-337 , March 2002

Headaches from practice guidelines

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☆ Reprints not available from the author.Address for correspondence: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville, 655 West 8th Street, Jacksonville, FL 32209; 904-244-4124; E-mail wears@ufl.edu.

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doi: 10.1067/mem.2002.122180

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 3 , Pages 334-337 , March 2002

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