Patients' perception of distress due to symptoms and effects of asthma on daily living and an investigation of possible influential factors.

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Published in Clin Sci (Lond) on July 01, 1990

Authors

F H Quirk1, P W Jones

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1: Division of Physiological Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School, London.

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