Mortality of patients with copd participating in chronic disease management programmes: A happy end?

Thorax

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 865-866

  Peytremann Bridevaux, I ^a   Taffe, P ^a   Burnand, B ^a   Bridevaux, P O ^a,b   Puhan, M A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 MIN WALKING TEST; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELF CARE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COPD EPIDEMIOLOGY;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84905965195     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204983     Document Type: Article

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