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Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the contribution of Lisa E. Rein, MS, Aniko Szabo, PhD, and Tom Chelius, MS, for their assistance with the statistical analyses for earlier versions of this paper.

Work was conducted at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.

Funding

The project described was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Program. Abiola O. Keller received support from the NIH Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research (LRP-HDR) (grant number L60 MD008863; PI: A. Keller). Additional support was provided by the National Centers for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through grant number UL1TR001436. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

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    Abiola O. Keller PA-C, MPH, PhD

  2. Physician Assistant Program, Northern Arizona University, Phoenix Biomedical Campus, Phoenix, AZ, USA

    Roderick S. Hooker

  3. Departments of Population Health and Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, 1701 Trinity St., Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Elizabeth A. Jacobs MD

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Keller, A.O., Hooker, R.S. & Jacobs, E.A. Visits for Depression to Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in the USA. J Behav Health Serv Res 45, 310–319 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-017-9579-2

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