Too much mammography.
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چکیده
1Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; 3Department of Research and Development, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway; 4Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 5Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; 6Department of Medicine, Sørlandet Hospital Kristiansand, Kristiansand, Norway
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عنوان ژورنال:
- BMJ
دوره 348 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014