Tse, Lap Ah
Lin, Xiaona
Li, Wentao
Qiu, Hong
Chan, Chi Kuen
Wang, Feng
Yu, Ignatius Tak-sun
Leung, Chi Chiu
Funding for this research was provided by:
Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund Board of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Article History
Received: 25 June 2018
Revised: 8 September 2018
Accepted: 13 September 2018
First Online: 13 November 2018
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Survey and Behavioral Research Ethics Committee (SBREC), the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The patient’s consent to participate was exempted. We only extracted information from the existing medical records.
: We do not open our data to the public, but the readers can approach the corresponding author for some limited usage of the data.
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