Research letter
Cause-specific mortality in people with bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris: a systematic review and meta-analysis
A. Hasanaj,
A. Hasanaj
School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Contribution: Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead)
Search for more papers by this author F. Zaki,
F. Zaki
Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Contribution: Data curation (equal)
Search for more papers by this author K.E. Harman,
K.E. Harman
Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Contribution: Conceptualization (supporting), Methodology (supporting)
Search for more papers by this author D. Grindlay,
D. Grindlay
Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Contribution: Methodology (supporting)
Search for more papers by this author S. Gran,
S. Gran
Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Formal analysis (lead), Methodology (lead)
Search for more papers by this author
A. Hasanaj,
A. Hasanaj
School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Contribution: Data curation (lead), Formal analysis (equal), Methodology (equal), Project administration (lead)
Search for more papers by this author F. Zaki,
F. Zaki
Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Contribution: Data curation (equal)
Search for more papers by this author K.E. Harman,
K.E. Harman
Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Contribution: Conceptualization (supporting), Methodology (supporting)
Search for more papers by this author D. Grindlay,
D. Grindlay
Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Contribution: Methodology (supporting)
Search for more papers by this author S. Gran,
S. Gran
Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Formal analysis (lead), Methodology (lead)
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First published: 12 September 2021
Correspondence: Sonia Gran.
Email: [email protected]
No abstract is available for this article.
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