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Exploring patient and provider level variables that may impact depression outcomes among African American adolescents

Bridgette M Brawner1, Roberta L Waite

  • 1Center for Health Disparities Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA. brawnerb@nursing.upenn.edu

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing : Official Publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc
|June 4, 2009
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