Telehealthcare for asthma

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  McLean, Susannah ^a   Chandler, David ^a   Nurmatov, Ulugbek ^a   Liu, Joseph LY ^b   Pagliari, Claudia ^a   Car, Josip ^c,d   Sheikh, Aziz ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; HUMAN; INTERNET; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; TELEMEDICINE; TELEPHONE;

ASTHMA; HUMANS; INTERNET; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TELEMEDICINE; TELEPHONE;

EID: 78650639366     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007717.pub2     Document Type: Review

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