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Meditation or Exercise for Preventing Acute Respiratory Infection: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Bruce Barrett, Mary S. Hayney, Daniel Muller, David Rakel, Ann Ward, Chidi N. Obasi, Roger Brown, Zhengjun Zhang, Aleksandra Zgierska, James Gern, Rebecca West, Tola Ewers, Shari Barlow, Michele Gassman and Christopher L. Coe
The Annals of Family Medicine July 2012, 10 (4) 337-346; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1376
Bruce Barrett
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Daniel Muller
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vol. 10 no. 4 337-346
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1376
PubMed 
22778122

Published By 
The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication May 26, 2011
  • Revision received November 11, 2011
  • Accepted for publication December 19, 2011
  • Published online July 9, 2012.

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  1. Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD1⇓,
  2. Mary S. Hayney, PharmD2,
  3. Daniel Muller, MD, PhD3,
  4. David Rakel, MD1,
  5. Ann Ward, PhD4,
  6. Chidi N. Obasi, MD1,
  7. Roger Brown, PhD5,
  8. Zhengjun Zhang, PhD6,
  9. Aleksandra Zgierska, MD, PhD1,
  10. James Gern, MD7,
  11. Rebecca West, PhD, APRN8,
  12. Tola Ewers, MS1,
  13. Shari Barlow, BA1,
  14. Michele Gassman, MA1 and
  15. Christopher L. Coe, PhD9
  1. All author affiliations are with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin: Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health (Barrett, Rakel, Obasi, Zgierska, Ewers, Barlow, Gassman); School of Pharmacy (Hayney); Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health (Muller); Department of Kinesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health (Ward); Design & Statistics Unit, Schools of Nursing amd Medicine and Public Health (Brown); Department of Statistics, School of Medicine and Public Health (Zhang); Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Public Health (Gern); School of Nursing (West); Harlow Center for Biological Psychology, School of Medicine and Public Health (Coe)
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD, Department of Family Medicine University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1100 Delaplaine Ct, Madison, WI 53715, bruce.barrett{at}fammed.wisc.edu
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