Ability to learn inhaler technique in relation to cognitive scores and tests of praxis old age

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 915, 2002, Pages 37-39

  Allen, S C ^a   Ragab, S ^a  

^a ROYAL BOURNEMOUTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DYSPRAXIA; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; IDEATIONAL DYSPRAXIA TEST; IDEOMOTOR DYSPRAXIA TEST; INHALATION; LEARNING DISORDER; MENTAL TEST; METERED DOSE INHALER; MINIMENTAL TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR; APRAXIAS; ASTHMA; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0036147024     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.78.915.37     Document Type: Article

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