Housing Insecurity and Cardiovascular Care: A Call to Action for Veteran Health.

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes

Division of Cardiology (N.K.B.), David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

Published: November 2024

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