Comparison of existing symptom-based questionnaires for identifying COPD in the general practice setting

Respirology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 323-333

  Van Schayck, Constant P ^a   Halbert, Ronald J ^b,c   Nordyke, Robert J ^b,c   Isonaka, Sharon ^b   Maroni, Jaman ^d   Nonikov, Dmitry ^e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Cerner Health Insights   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

^e BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive; Diagnosis; Family practice; Primary care; Pulmonary disease; Questionnaires; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; CASE FINDING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM; SYMPTOM; WHEEZING;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 22644431708     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2005.00720.x     Document Type: Article

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