Posttraumatic stress disorder and medication nonadherence in patients with uncontrolled hypertension.
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Author Affiliations:Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and HarvardMedical School, Boston (Chinn); Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Liu, Keating); Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland (Klabunde); RAND, Santa Monica, California (Kahn); Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California (Kahn); Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham andWomen's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (Keating).
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عنوان ژورنال:
- JAMA internal medicine
دوره 174 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014