Methodological issues in studies of air pollution and daily counts of deaths or hospital admissions.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on April 01, 1996

Authors

J Schwartz1, C Spix, G Touloumi, L Bachárová, T Barumamdzadeh, A le Tertre, T Piekarksi, A Ponce de Leon, A Pönkä, G Rossi, M Saez, J P Schouten

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, USA.

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