The School Inner-City Asthma Intervention Study: Design, rationale, methods, and lessons learned
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عنوان ژورنال: Contemporary Clinical Trials
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1551-7144
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2017.06.008