MDIs, spacers, and dry powder inhalers: What patients are likely to do wrong

Consultant

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 702-705

  Self, Timothy H ^a   Kilgore, Kimberlee E ^a   Shelton, Vicky ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEVICE; DRY POWDER; ERROR; HUMAN; METERED DOSE INHALER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POWDER INHALER; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKILL; TEACHING;

EID: 0038442914     PISSN: 00107069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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