A longitudinal study of emergency room visits and air pollution for Prince George, British Columbia

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7-9, 1996, Pages 823-836

  Jørgensen, Bent ^a   Lundbye Christensen, Søren ^b   Song, Xue Kun ^a   Sun, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR;

AIR POLLUTION; CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METEOROLOGY; MORBIDITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 0029960930     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960415)15:7/9<823::aid-sim252>3.0.co;2-a     Document Type: Conference Paper

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