Survival experience of the population needing hospital treatment for asthma or COPD at age 50-54 years

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 568-572

  Keistinen, T ^a   Tuuponen, T ^a   Kivela S L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTER; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031978132     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-6111(98)90310-9     Document Type: Article

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