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(Accepted 20 October 1998)

Center for Health Policy, Law and Management, Box 90253, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA

Donald H Taylor Jr, assistant research professor

Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 0211, USA

Aneez Esmail, visiting professor of social medicine

Correspondence to: Dr Taylor dtaylor@hpolicy. duke.edu

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