A retrospective population based trend analysis on hospital admissions for lower respiratory illness among Swedish children from 1987 to 2000

BMC Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-9

  Björ, Ove ^a   Bråbäck, Lennart ^a  

^a SUNDSVALL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042616940     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-3-22     Document Type: Article

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