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Quality of Care in US Children With Sickle Cell Anemia Julie Kanter, MD1; Carlton Dampier, MD2; Irene Agodoa, MD3; Robin Howard3; Sally Wade4; Virginia Noxon, PhD5; Samir K. Ballas, MD6 1Lifespan

Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; 2Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 3Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA; 4Wade Outcomes Research and Consulting, Salt Lake City, UT; 5Truven Health Analytics, an IBM company, Ann Arbor, MI; 6Department of Medicine/Hematology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

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