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. 2015 Nov;108(11):433-9.
doi: 10.1177/0141076815600909. Epub 2015 Oct 2.

Challenges of harmonising data from UK national health surveys: a case study of attempts to estimate the UK prevalence of asthma

Bright I Nwaru  1 , Mome Mukherjee  2 , Ramyani P Gupta  3 , Angela Farr  4 , Martin Heaven  5 , Andrew Stoddart  6 , Amrita Bandyopadhyay  5 , Deborah Fitzsimmons  4 , Michael Shields  7 , Ceri Phillips  4 , George Chamberlain  4 , Colin Fischbacher  8 , Christopher Dibben  9 , Chantelle Aftab  1 , Colin R Simpson  1 , Ronan Lyons  5 , David Strachan  3 , Gwyneth A Davies  10 , Brian McKinstry  2 , Aziz Sheikh  11
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Challenges of harmonising data from UK national health surveys: a case study of attempts to estimate the UK prevalence of asthma

Bright I Nwaru et al. J R Soc Med. 2015 Nov.
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