- ►utmem.edu [PDF] S Singh, YK Loke, CD Furberg - Jama, 2008 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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A Qaseem, V Snow, P Shekelle, K Sherif, TJ … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007 - Am Coll Physicians Recommendation 1: In patients with respiratory symptoms, particularly dyspnea,
spirometry should be performed to diagnose airflow obstruction. Spirometry
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- ►annals.org [PDF] K Lin, B Watkins, T Johnson, JA Rodriguez, … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2008 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth leading
cause of death in the United States. Fewer than half of the estimated 24 million
Americans with airflow obstruction have received a COPD diagnosis, and ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
S Singh, AV Amin, YK Loke - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2009 - archinte.highwire.org Methods We performed systematic searches with no date restrictions through June
30, 2008, of MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
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MA Spruit, I Vanderhoven-Augustin, PP … - The Lancet, 2008 - Elsevier Pulmonary rehabilitation should be a part of integrated care of patients with
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). [1] and [2] Patients with COPD
have progressive irreversible airflow limitation, which can induce overt ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - All 12 versions
MA Puhan, LM Bachmann, J Kleijnen, G ter … - BMC medicine, 2009 - biomedcentral.com Most patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) receive inhaled
long-acting bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids. Conventional
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DM Sobieraj, CM White, CI Coleman - Clinical Therapeutics, 2008 - Elsevier Methods:A systematic literature search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane
Collaboration's Central Register of Controlled Clinical Trials (from initiation
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CL Tsai, JA Sobrino, JCA Camargo - Academic emergency medicine: official journal of the …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Abstract Objectives: Little is known about recent trends in US emergency
department (ED) visits for acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (AECOPD) or about ED management of AECOPD. This study aimed to ... Cited by 6 - Related articles
DE Niewoehner - Respiration, 2008 - content.karger.com Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are important
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