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Part I: a quantitative study of social risk screening acceptability in patients and caregivers

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Image-based sexual abuse: The extent, nature, and predictors of perpetration in a community sample of Australian residents

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Identification of Racial Inequities in Access to Specialized Inpatient Heart Failure Care at an Academic Medical Center

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Survival After Bilateral Versus Single-Lung Transplantation for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

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Drinking patterns, drinking contexts and alcohol‐related aggression among late adolescent and young adult drinkers

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Psychiatric disorders in male prisoners who made near-lethal suicide attempts: case–control study.

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Prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and social responsiveness symptoms of autism: Population-based study of young children

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Risk factors for postoperative anxiety in children

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Routine Cerebrospinal Fluid Enterovirus Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing Reduces Hospitalization and Antibiotic Use for Infants 90 Days of Age or Younger

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Adolescents’ Preferences for Substance Abuse Screening in Primary Care Practice

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Cerebrospinal Fluid Enterovirus Testing in Infants 56 Days or Younger

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Burden of Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Gálvez, Argentina, 2007

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Relationship of Psychological Flexibility and Mindfulness to Caregiver Burden, and Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Caregivers of People with Dementia

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Coping strategies of patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer in six European countries: insights from the ACTION Study

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Association Analysis of 14 Candidate Gene Polymorphism with Depression and Stress among Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

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