Prevalence of night sweats in primary care patients: an OKPRN and TAFP-Net collaborative study - Original Research - Statistical Data Included

Journal of Family Practice, May, 2002 by James W. Mold, Migi K. Mathew, Shuaib Belgore, Mark DeHaven

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS * This research was made possible by a grant from the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation. We would like to acknowledge the assistance of Lavonne Glover in preparing the manuscript and to the following practicing family physicians and their staff who made time in their busy schedules to collect the data: Nathan Boren, Jo Ann Carpenter, Stephen Cobb, Ed Farrow, Carry Fisher, Helen Franklin, Kurt Frantz, David Hadley, Terrill Hulson, Joe Jamison, Dee Legako, Migy Mathew, Tomas Owens, John Pittman, Mike Pontious, Paul Preslar, R. Scott Stewart, David Strickland, Clinton Strong, Terry Truong, Keith Underhill, Kyle Waugh, Dan Woiwode, Mike Woods, Rick Edwards, Bob C. Jones, Leah R. Mabry, Tom Mueller, Mike Ragsdale, Hugh Wilson, Frank D. Wright, and Samuel T. Coleridge.

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From the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Oklahoma Center for Family Medicine Research, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Oklahoma City (J.W.M., M.K.M., S.B.) and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Department of Family Medicine, Dallas (M.D.) The authors report no competing interests. All requests for reprints should be addressed to James W. Mold, MD, MPH, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma Center for Family Medicine Research. Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, 900 N.E. 10th Street. Oklahoma City, OK 73104. E-mail: james-mold@ouhsc.edu.