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Author Affiliations
[a] Pignone: Division of General Internal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, North Carolina.
[b] Ammerman and Fernandez: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, North Carolina.
[c] Orleans: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ.
[d] Pender: Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, Plainfield, IL.
[e] Woolf: Department of Family Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fairfax, VA.
[f] Lohr: RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
[g] Sutton: RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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