Early diagnosis of IPF: Time for a primary-care case-finding initiative?

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Antoniou, Katerina M ^a   Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K ^a   Margaritopoulos, George A ^a   Lionis, Christos ^a   Wells, Athol U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE FINDING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; ADULT; AGED; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; AGED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84891354163     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(13)70283-2     Document Type: Letter

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