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A tailored nurse coaching intervention for oral chemotherapy adherence

Susan M Schneider1, Donna B Adams1, Tracy Gosselin1

  • 1Duke University School of Nursing and Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina.

Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology
|August 5, 2014
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