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Barriers to Adolescent Immunization: A Survey of Family Physicians and Pediatricians
Natalia Vukshich Oster, Carol A. McPhillips-Tangum, Francisco Averhoff and Kelly Howell
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Practice January 2005, 18 (1) 13-19; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.18.1.13
Natalia Vukshich Oster
RN, MPH
Carol A. McPhillips-Tangum
MPH
Francisco Averhoff
MD, MPH

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Vol. 18, Issue 1
1 Jan 2005
Barriers to Adolescent Immunization: A Survey of Family Physicians and Pediatricians
Natalia Vukshich Oster, Carol A. McPhillips-Tangum, Francisco Averhoff, Kelly Howell
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Practice Jan 2005, 18 (1) 13-19; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.18.1.13
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