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Discordance Between Physician and Patient Self-Rated Health and All-Cause Mortality

Karen B. DeSalvo and Paul Muntner
Ochsner Journal September 2011, 11 (3) 232-240;
Karen B. DeSalvo
*General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
†Health Systems Management & Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
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Paul Muntner
*General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
‡Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL
§Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
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