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Long-term oxygen for COPD with moderate desaturation

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  1. Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Specializzazioni Mediche, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

    Ludovico Furlan & Luca Erba

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e di Comunità, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Ludovico Furlan & Luca Erba

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Furlan, L., Erba, L. & GrAM (Gruppo di Autoformazione Metodologica). Long-term oxygen for COPD with moderate desaturation. Intern Emerg Med 12, 239–240 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-017-1616-x

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