Paper – Differences in therapeutic consequences of exercise testing in a rural and an urban Danish county
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| 2 | Please explain how you measured the distance from the local hospital to the angiography centre. Did you simply measure in straight lines ("as the crow flies"), or did you take into account distances by road and railway? Furthermore, we wondered whether you used any recognised geographical formula for calculating these distances. | |
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