The Confronting COPD International Survey: Patients hardly know they have COPD

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 793-794

  Dekhuijzen, P N R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MORBIDITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SMOKING HABIT;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SMOKING;

EID: 0036799596     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.02.00404402     Document Type: Editorial

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