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- Title
Rising Costs of COPD and the Potential for Maintenance Therapy to Slow the Trend.
- Authors
Blanchette, Christopher M.; Gross, Nicholas J.; Altman, Pablo
- Abstract
The article presents a study on literature dealing with maintenance therapy for treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Topics discussed include the methodology used in the search for English articles related to the direct healthcare costs of managing patients with COPD, prevalence and death rate for COPD and treatment of acute exacerbations. It examines utilization of maintenance therapy for the condition, its effect on direct costs of COPD treatment and patient outcomes.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OBSTRUCTIVE lung disease treatment; CONFIDENCE intervals; MEDLINE; META-analysis; ONLINE information services; RESEARCH funding; SPIROMETRY; COST analysis; DISEASE prevalence; SEVERITY of illness index; EARLY medical intervention; ODDS ratio
- Publication
American Health & Drug Benefits, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 2, p98
- ISSN
1942-2962
- Publication type
Article