Symptom-based questionnaire for differentiating COPD and asthma

Respiration

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 296-305

  Tinkelman, David G ^a   Price, David B ^b   Nordyke, Robert J ^c,d   Halbert, R J ^c,d   Isonaka, Sharon ^c   Nonikov, Dmitry ^e   Juniper, Elizabeth F ^f   Freeman, Daryl ^b   Hausen, Thomas ^e   Levy, Mark L ⁱ   Østrem, Anders ^e   Van Der Molen, Thys ^g   Van Schayck, Constant P ^h  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Cerner Health Insights   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e McMaster University ^*

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asthma; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Diagnosis; Primary care; Questionnaires; Spirometry; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; BREATHING DISORDER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646537435     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090141     Document Type: Review

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