Patients are hurt by a false diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 229-

  Enright, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CHRONIC COUGH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; EMPHYSEMA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INHALER; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MORBIDITY; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 84892667170     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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