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The Colorado Asthma Toolkit Program: A Practice Coaching Intervention from the High Plains Research Network
Bruce G. Bender, Perry Dickinson, Allison Rankin, Frederick S. Wamboldt, Linda Zittleman and John M. Westfall
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine May 2011, 24 (3) 240-248; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2011.03.100171
Bruce G. Bender
PhD
Perry Dickinson
MD
Allison Rankin
MPH
Frederick S. Wamboldt
MD
Linda Zittleman
MSPH
John M. Westfall
MD, MPH

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The Colorado Asthma Toolkit Program: A Practice Coaching Intervention from the High Plains Research Network
Bruce G. Bender, Perry Dickinson, Allison Rankin, Frederick S. Wamboldt, Linda Zittleman, John M. Westfall
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine May 2011, 24 (3) 240-248; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2011.03.100171
The Colorado Asthma Toolkit Program: A Practice Coaching Intervention from the High Plains Research Network
Bruce G. Bender, Perry Dickinson, Allison Rankin, Frederick S. Wamboldt, Linda Zittleman, John M. Westfall
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine May 2011, 24 (3) 240-248; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2011.03.100171
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