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Development of a Brief Diabetes Distress Screening Instrument

Lawrence Fisher, Russell E. Glasgow, Joseph T. Mullan, Marilyn M. Skaff and William H. Polonsky
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2008, 6 (3) 246-252; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.842
Lawrence Fisher
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vol. 6 no. 3 246-252
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.842
PubMed 
18474888

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication August 2, 2007
  • Revision received November 16, 2007
  • Accepted for publication November 26, 2007
  • Published online May 12, 2008.

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  1. Lawrence Fisher, PhD1,
  2. Russell E. Glasgow, PhD2,
  3. Joseph T. Mullan, PhD3,
  4. Marilyn M. Skaff, PhD1 and
  5. William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDE4
  1. 1Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
  2. 2Center for Dissemination and Implementation Research, Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente of Colorado, Denver
  3. 3Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
  4. 4Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Lawrence Fisher, PhD, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Box 0900, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, fisherl{at}fcm.ucsf.edu

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Lawrence Fisher, Russell E. Glasgow, Joseph T. Mullan, Marilyn M. Skaff, William H. Polonsky
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