Death certificates in asthma and COPD patients (Survey of statistical data in Warsaw)

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series

Volumn 57, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 253-257

  May, Kazimierz L ^a  

^a NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Asthma, COPD, (mortality); Cause of death (underlying, additional); Death certificates; Poland (epidemiology); Pulmonary heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; POLAND; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 0038107345     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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