Lies, damned lies and mortality statistics?

Thorax

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 923-924

  Hansell, A L ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33751253760     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2006.065573     Document Type: Editorial

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