Continuous positive airway pressure: Placebo power, or does it really work?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 519-520

  Babar, Sardar I ^b   Quan, Stuart F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNITY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TRACHEOTOMY; WAKEFULNESS;

HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 0037429631     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.5.519     Document Type: Editorial

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