'I don't like Mondays' - Day of the week of coronary heart disease deaths in Scotland: Study of routinely collected data

British Medical Journal

Volumn 320, Issue 7229, 2000, Pages 218-219

  Evans, Christine ^a   Graham, Lesley ^a   Chalmers, James ^a   Capewell, Simon ^b   Redpath, Adam ^a   Finlayson, Alan ^a   Boyd, James ^a   Pell, Jill ^b   McMurray, John ^b   Macintyre, Kate ^b  

^a HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034700911     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.320.7229.218     Document Type: Article

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