Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 7 , Pages 1070-1075 , July 2009

Pulmonary rehabilitation is successful for COPD irrespective of MRC dyspnoea grade

Received 11 September 2008 ,Accepted 8 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.01.009

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 7 , Pages 1070-1075 , July 2009

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