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. 2000 Aug;83(2):104–110. doi: 10.1136/adc.83.2.104

Surviving chronic physical illness: psychosocial outcome in adult life

J Gledhill 1, L Rangel 1, E Garralda 1
PMCID: PMC1718431  PMID: 10906013

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