Audit of acute admissions of COPD: standards of care and management in the hospital setting
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by European Respiratory Society (ERS) in European Respiratory Journal
- Vol. 17 (3) , 343-349
- https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.01.17303430
Abstract
Despite publication of several management guidelines for COPD, relatively little is known about standards of care in clinical practice.Keywords
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