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Exploring perspectives on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in people who smoke heroin: a qualitative study

Rebecca Nightingale, Paul Griffiths, Kevin Mortimer, Paul Walker, Tara Byrne, Kerry Marwood, Sally Morrison-Griffiths, Sue Renwick, Jamie Rylance and Hassan Burhan
BJGP Open 2020; 4 (3): bjgpopen20X101055. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101055
Rebecca Nightingale
1 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
2 Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals, Liverpool, UK
3 Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
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vol. 4 no. 3 bjgpopen20X101055
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https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101055
PubMed 
32665233

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Royal College of General Practitioners
History 
  • Received December 11, 2019
  • Accepted February 2, 2020
  • Published online August 25, 2020.

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  1. Rebecca Nightingale1,2,3,*,
  2. Paul Griffiths2,
  3. Kevin Mortimer1,
  4. Paul Walker4,
  5. Tara Byrne5,
  6. Kerry Marwood5,
  7. Sally Morrison-Griffiths5,
  8. Sue Renwick6,
  9. Jamie Rylance1,3,† and
  10. Hassan Burhan2,†
  1. 1 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
  2. 2 Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals, Liverpool, UK
  3. 3 Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
  4. 4 University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK
  5. 5 Addaction, Liverpool, UK
  6. 6 Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, Liverpool, UK
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    Rebecca Nightingale, rebecca.nightingale{at}lstmed.ac.uk
  1. ↵† These authors contributed equally to this work

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BJGP Open 2020; 4 (3): bjgpopen20X101055. DOI: 10.3399/bjgpopen20X101055
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