COPD management in primary care: Is an educational plan for GPs useful?

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Bertella, Enrica ^a   Zadra, Alessandro ^a   Vitacca, Michele ^a  

^a Respiratory Rehabilitative Division Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuity of care; Educational; General practitioner; Management

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; THEOPHYLLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84876526180     PISSN: 1828695X     EISSN: 20496958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-6958-8-24     Document Type: Article

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