Increasing COPD awareness
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Raising awareness of COPD in primary care.
COPD is a major cause of mortality and a significant drain on health-care resources but is widely underdiagnosed in the primary-care setting. There is an urgent need to raise the profile of the disease among both primary-care physicians and patients. At the workshop "COPD: Working Towards a Greater Understanding," a panel of COPD experts from Europe and the United States discussed ways in which...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.06.00025905