A telehealth integrated asthma-COPD service for primary care: A proposal for a pilot feasibility study in Crete, Greece

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tsiligianni, Ioanna G ^a,b,c   Van Der Molen, Thys ^b   Tzanakis, Nikolaos E ^c   Siafakas, Nikolaos M ^c   Van Heijst, Ellen ^d   Lionis, Christos ^c  

^a Agia Barbara Health Care Center   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d Northern Laboratory Service for General Practitioners Labnoord   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77955380669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-198     Document Type: Article

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