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Improving the Adoption of Advance Directives in Primary Care Practices

Elizabeth Wickersham, Mary Gowin, Munim H. Deen and Zsolt Nagykaldi
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2019, 32 (2) 168-179; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2019.02.180236
Elizabeth Wickersham
From the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Research Division (EW, MG, ZN), Primary Care Health Policy Division (MG), Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health (MHD), University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK.
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Mary Gowin
From the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Research Division (EW, MG, ZN), Primary Care Health Policy Division (MG), Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health (MHD), University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK.
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Munim H. Deen
From the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Research Division (EW, MG, ZN), Primary Care Health Policy Division (MG), Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health (MHD), University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK.
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Zsolt Nagykaldi
From the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Research Division (EW, MG, ZN), Primary Care Health Policy Division (MG), Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health (MHD), University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK.
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