Six Minute Walk Test as a Monitoring tool in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Pulmonary Rehabilitation
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Advances in Internal Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2091-1440,2091-1432
DOI: 10.3126/jaim.v2i2.8774