Improving the Health of Persons With Serious Mental Illness.
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Funding/Support:DrMangurian is supported by Career Development Award K23MH093689 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), by the UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) Hellman Fellows Award for Early-Career Faculty, and by UCSF–Clinical and Translational Science Institute (UCSF-CTSI) grant UL1 TR000004 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), NIH. Ms Creasman and Dr Fuentes-Afflick are supported by UCSF-CTSI grant UL1 TR000004 from the NCATS, NIH. Dr Fuentes-Afflick is supported by center grant P60MD006902 from the NIH. Dr Schillinger is supported by center grants P30DK092924-01 and P60MD006902 from the NIH.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- JAMA internal medicine
دوره 175 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015