Tutorials from the NIH, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Background questions are general and can be answered using secondary sources such as textbooks, reference sources, monographs and review articles. They ask the who, what, where, why and how of some aspect of a disorder, test, treatment or care. A good place to start when researching is a subject-specific encyclopedia.
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