156: Antenatal Screening for Chromosomal Abnormalities: Cost Effectiveness and Outcome
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Fereshteh Farhadi, Simin Taghavi, Hossein Alikhah, Mohammad Naghavi-Behzad. Students’ research committee, Iranian Evidence Based Medicine Center of Excellence, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Women’s Reproductive Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Department of Emergency Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Medical Philosophy and History Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
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