Dry powder inhalers: Which factors determine the frequency of handling errors?

Respiration

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-25

  Wieshammer, Siegfried ^a   Dreyhaupt, Jens ^b  

^a Klinikum Offenburg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asthma; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Dry powder inhalers; Handling errors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRY POWDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHALATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; POWDER INHALER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASTHMA; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POWDERS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPIROMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38049074372     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109374     Document Type: Article

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