‘It is not going to change his life but it has picked him up’: a qualitative study of perspectives on long term oxygen therapy for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) extends life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with severe hypoxaemia. Questionnaire-based studies of the effects of LTOT have not suggested uniformly positive findings. The few qualitative studies suggest that patients report benefits...

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Autores principales: Goldbart, Juliet, Yohannes, Abebaw Mengistu, Woolrych, Ryan, Caton, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3750579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23886444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-11-124

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3750579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23886444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-11-124

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