Review: mucolytic drugs reduce exacerbations, illness days, and antibiotic use in chronic bronchitis and COPD

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Herbert P Wiedemann. ACP J Club. 2002 Mar-Apr.

. 2002 Mar-Apr;136(2):54.

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