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  1. Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif

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Nguyen, T.T., Mcphee, S.J. Patient-provider communication in cancer screening. J GEN INTERN MED 18, 402–403 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.30346.x

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