Qualitative research-enhanced understanding of patients' beliefs: results of focus groups with low-income, urban, African American adults with asthma.

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Published in J Allergy Clin Immunol on May 01, 2003

Authors

Maureen George1, Tovia G Freedman, A Lorraine Norfleet, Harold I Feldman, Andrea J Apter

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA.

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