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. 2025 Oct 24.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-025-09837-4. Online ahead of print.

Health Workforce Staffing in Immigration Prisons

Joseph Nwadiuko  1   2 , Erik Carrillo  3 , Annette M Dekker  4 , Amy Zeidan  5 , A Katrina Nelson  6   7 , Diana Simmes  7 , Parveen Parmar  8
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Health Workforce Staffing in Immigration Prisons

Joseph Nwadiuko et al. J Gen Intern Med. .
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