Chronic illness care in Russia: A pilot project to improve asthma care in a "closed city"

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Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 861-865

  Hertzman, Phillip A ^a   Kelly, H William ^b   Coultas, David ^c  

^a Los Alamos Oversight Bureau   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Delivery of health care; Russia

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUTICASONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; THEOPHYLLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SUSTAINED RELEASE PREPARATION; CHILD; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SELF CARE;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; CHILD; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PILOT PROJECTS; RUSSIA; SELF CARE;

EID: 15844375198     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.3.861     Document Type: Article

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