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Conducting Respiratory Oscillometry in an Outpatient Setting
Published on: April 8, 2022
[Romanian echoes of European COPD audit]
1Institutul de Pneumologie, Marius Nasta-- Bucureşti. mihaltan@starnets.ro
Abstract:
ERS COPD Audit's mission was to draw attention to the many problems that practitioners raised by the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, by the comorbidites and impact of exacerbation on the patient destiny and practitioner reaction. In this Romanian article I draw attention to specific issues that arise when addressing these exacerbations to our hospitals.
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