Published in Health Aff (Millwood) on December 01, 2012
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Female genital cutting: current practices and beliefs in western Africa. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 1.28
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The Stressful Caregiving Adult Reactions to Experiences of Dying (SCARED) Scale: a measure for assessing caregiver exposure to distress in terminal care. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry (2003) 1.25
Factors associated with caregiver burden among caregivers of terminally ill patients with cancer. J Palliat Care (2004) 1.24
Picturing obesity: analyzing the social epidemiology of obesity conveyed through US news media images. Soc Sci Med (2012) 1.24
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Mixed methods in biomedical and health services research. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2013) 1.24