Ambulatory Pediatrics
Volume 7, Issue 6 , Pages 431-438 , November 2007

Unmet Mental Health Need and Access to Services for Children With Special Health Care Needs and Their Families

Received 11 February 2007 ,Accepted 6 August 2007.

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 Preliminary data were presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in May 2004 in San Francisco and the Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Conference in December 2004 in Atlanta.

PII: S1530-1567(07)00143-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ambp.2007.08.001

Ambulatory Pediatrics
Volume 7, Issue 6 , Pages 431-438 , November 2007

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