Early intervention for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by practice nurse and GP teams: A cluster randomized trial

Family Practice

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 663-670

  Zwar, Nicholas A ^a   Bunker, Jeremy M ^a   Reddel, Helen K ^b   Dennis, Sarah M ^a,b   Middleton, Sandy ^c   van Schayck, Onno C P ^d   Crockett, Alan J ^e   Hasan, Iqbal ^a   Hermiz, Oshana ^a   Vagholkar, Sanjyot ^a   Xuan, Wei ^f   Marks, Guy B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f INGHAM INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Nursing; Primary care; Quality of care; Respiratory diseases; Smoking tobacco use

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; ST. GEORGE RESPIRATORY QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT DURATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; INFLUENZA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VACCINATION; VITAL CAPACITY;

AGED; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SMOKING; VACCINATION; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 85015030087     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmw077     Document Type: Article

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