Evidence-based health care: Multiple chemical hypersensitivity or idiopathic environmental intolerance

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 68-72

  Ortega Benito, José M ^a  

^a NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SKIN TEST; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY;

ADULT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0036319647     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0025-7753(02)72284-7     Document Type: Review

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