Importance of assistance by caregivers for inhaled corticosteroid therapy in elderly patients with asthma [8]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1626-1627

  Matsunaga, Kazuto ^a   Yamagata, Toshiyuki ^a   Minakata, Yoshiaki ^a   Ichinose, Masakazu ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON;

AGED; ASTHMA; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; DRY POWDER; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; METERED DOSE INHALER; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POWDER INHALER;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METERED DOSE INHALERS; NURSE'S ROLE; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 33749857828     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00905.x     Document Type: Letter

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3. Matsunaga K, Yanagisawa S, Ichikawa T et al. Two cases of handicapped elderly asthma where providing assistance for inhalation procedure proved effective. Allergol Int 2006; in press.