Rising costs of COPD and the potential for maintenance therapy to slow the trend

American Health and Drug Benefits

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 98-106

  Blanchette, Christopher M ^a,b   Gross, Nicholas J ^c   Altman, Pablo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b Health Economics and Outcomes Research Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc   (United States)

^c University Medical Research SC   (United States)

^d Medical Affairs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; PLACEBO; SALMETEROL; TIOTROPIUM BROMIDE;

ASTHMA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DATA BASE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899784168     PISSN: 19422962     EISSN: 19422970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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