Research ArticleOriginal Research

Elevated Sleep Disturbance among Blacks in an Urban Family Medicine Practice

Wilfred R. Pigeon, Kathi Heffner, Paul Duberstein, Kevin Fiscella, Jan Moynihan and Benjamin P. Chapman
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2011, 24 (2) 161-168; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2011.02.100028

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