Can patients with COPD self-manage?

The Lancet

Volumn 380, Issue 9842, 2012, Pages 624-625

  Wedzicha, Jadwiga A ^a   Vestbo, Jørgen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CARE; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84865130942     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61339-7     Document Type: Note

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