Clinical usefulness of long-term oxygen therapy in adults

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 375, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 1683-1684

  Ekström, Magnus ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BLEKINGE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE TEST; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LONG TERM CARE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH SUBJECT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY;

EID: 84992730272     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1611742     Document Type: Editorial

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