Methods and baseline characteristics of two group-randomized trials with multiracial and multiethnic working-class samples

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Stoddard, Anne M ^a   Krieger, Nancy ^b   Barbeau, Elizabeth M ^c   Bennett, Gary G ^c   Fay, Martha E ^b   Sorensen, Glorian ^c   Emmons, Karen ^c  

^a NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84978381245     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
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