Tobacco smoking and anaesthesia: How Danish departments of anaesthesia handle the problems

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 161, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 3670-3672

  Møller, Ann M ^a   Pedersen, Tom ^b  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENMARK; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ANESTHESIA DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; DENMARK; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 0033553695     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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