Clinical findings of the patients with legal pulmonary disability - Short-term follow-up at a tertiary university hospital in Korea

Korean Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 72-77

  Kyung, Sun Young ^a   Kim, Yu Jin ^a   An, Chang Hyeok ^a   Lee, Sang Pyo ^a   Park, Jeong Woong ^a   Jeong, Sung Hwan ^a  

^a Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bronchial asthma; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Pulmonary disability; Pulmonary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KOREA; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ASTHMA; BLOOD GAS MONITORING, TRANSCUTANEOUS; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 45949089146     PISSN: 12263303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2008.23.2.72     Document Type: Article

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