Smoking cessation counselling: Who does best - Pulmonologists or GPs?

Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-18

  Abi Fadel, Francois ^a   Gorga, Joseph ^a   Fahmy, Samir ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBULATORY CARE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; ETHNICITY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PULMONOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOBACCO;

HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84874735940     PISSN: 14714418     EISSN: 14751534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4104/pcrj.2013.00028     Document Type: Letter

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