The COPD Assessment Test: what have we learned over its first 5 years?
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The COPD Assessment Test: what have we learned over its first 5 years?
It is 5 years since the development and first validation of the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) [1], so the review of papers concerning the CAT by GUPTA et al. [2] in this issue of the European Respiratory Journal is very timely. The authors identified over 40 studies using a systematic approach to minimise biases, although they acknowledge that they introduced one bias by selecting papers published...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00125214