Surgery for glue ear: the English epidemic wanes.
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منابع مشابه
Glue ear surgery.
Black and Hutchings present an intriguing account of the rise and fall of glue ear surgery in two English regions. 1 They speculate that the acceleration of the decline from 1992 may have been due to the Effective Health Care bulletin on glue ear, helped by five " contextual features ". One of these was the concurrent structural change to the NHS arising from the introduction of healthcare comm...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.49.3.234