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Mothers’ Comfort with Screening Questions about Sensitive Issues, Including Domestic Violence

Therese Zink, Linda Levin, Peter Wollan and Frank Putnam
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine July 2006, 19 (4) 358-367; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.19.4.358
Therese Zink
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