Meta-analysis: Travel and risk for venous thromboembolism

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 180-190

  Chandra, Divay ^a,b   Parisini, Emilio ^a,b   Mozaffarian, Dariush ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSIS; CINAHL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPRESSION GARMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMBASE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDLINE; MESH HEADING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 68249091069     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-151-3-200908040-00129     Document Type: Review

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