Evaluation of three scales of dyspnea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Annals of Thoracic Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 128-132

  Chhabra, S ^a   Gupta, A ^a   Khuma, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Baseline dyspnoea index; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Modified Medical Research Council scale; Oxygen cost diagram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RATING SCALE; SPIROMETRY; WALKING;

EID: 68149117086     PISSN: 18171737     EISSN: 19983557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.53351     Document Type: Article

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