Ain't necessarily so: review and critique of recent meta-analyses of behavioral medicine interventions in health psychology.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Health Psychology

• Publication date

  2010-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0017633PMID 20230082
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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