Singing for Lung Health - A systematic review of the literature and consensus statement

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lewis, Adam ^a   Cave, Phoene ^a   Stern, Myra ^b   Welch, Lindsay ^c   Taylor, Karen ^a   Russell, Juliet ^a   Doyle, Anne Marie ^a   Russell, Anne Marie ^a   McKee, Heather ^d   Clift, Stephen ^e   Bott, Julia ^a   Hopkinson, Nicholas S ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH LUNG FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

^e CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS; EMBASE; HEALTH; HUMAN; LUNG; MEDLINE; PEDRO; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SINGING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEB OF SCIENCE; LUNG DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGING;

EID: 85000538755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20551010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npjpcrm.2016.80     Document Type: Review

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