Adherence to CPAP: Understanding the key to a successful treatment

Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 144-145

  Vazquez, Joyce ^a,b   Varon, Joseph ^c  

^a Dorrington Medical Associates   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANÁHUAC   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliance; Continuous positive airway pressure treatment; Side effects

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79956282384     PISSN: 1573398X     EISSN: 18756387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339811795589487     Document Type: Editorial

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