comments and opinions:trends in population burden of copd: actual facts or fallacies?with great interest we read the contribution by gershon and colleagues about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd)-related prevalence, incidence, and mortality in canada. their study is another example of how ...
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Those facts -- and an active social conscience -- helped convince FCB Health, one of the country's largest ad agencies, to work with the Koppels (at no cost), crafting a campaign that will focus on some head-shaking realities, such as this: "Just pennies per person per year to fight ...
We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional study of healthcare costs and utilization using hospital administrative data from the Premier Perspective™ Database (Premier, Inc., Charlotte, NC). The database contains de-identified billing and coding data (diagnoses, procedures, costs, drugs dispensed...
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2Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Medicine, Medical Care Line, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA Abstract: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable disease of the lung caused primarily by exposure to cigarette smoke. ...
These facts in combination with their possible exposure to passive smoking might explain the fact that they are the majority of the never smokers among Greek COPD patients. Our study results are in agreement with previous observations reporting that female COPD patients are younger and have a lower...
2Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Medicine, Medical Care Line, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA Abstract: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable disease of the lung caused primarily by exposure to cigarette smoke. ...
Facts about COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) COPD affects the lung tissue, causing the patient to suffer gradual deterioration in his or her ability to breathe. Development of the disease can be slowed down, but not reversed. The condition can become worse periodically, and can trigger...
Here, we report the development process of a remote health monitoring and support system employing a tablet computer (iPad), that was created to help prevent frailty in elderly home-care patients with COPD, and the results of its use by two elderly home-care COPD patients. There was a ...