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Volume 129, Issue 4, April 2006, Pages 833-835
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Does Screening for COPD by Primary Care Physicians Have the Potential to Cause More Harm Than Good?

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Dr. Enright is Research Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

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