Detecting mild COPD is not a waste of resources

Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 238-239

  Kaplan, Alan ^a   Freeman, Daryl ^b   Cleland, Jennifer ^b   Cerasoli, Frank ^c   Price, David ^b  

^a Family Physician Airways Group of Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; LONG ACTING DRUG; SHORT ACTING DRUG; TIOTROPIUM BROMIDE;

ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COUGHING; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM; SYMPTOM; WHEEZING;

EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING;

EID: 80052172153     PISSN: 14714418     EISSN: 14751534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4104/pcrj.2011.00075     Document Type: Letter

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