Applied Nursing Research
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 195-199 , November 2007

Collecting data by telephone from low-income African Americans

Received 2 January 2007 ,Revised 1 March 2007 ,Accepted 11 April 2007.

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Applied Nursing Research
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