A cross-sectional study of the identification of prevalent asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among initiators of long-acting β-agonists in health insurance claims data

BACKGROUND: Claims data are potentially useful for identifying long-acting β-agonist (LABA) use by patients with asthma, a practice that is associated with increased mortality. We evaluated the accuracy of claims data for classifying prevalent asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

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Autores principales: Dore, David D, Ziyadeh, Najat, Cai, Bin, Clifford, C Robin, Norman, Heather, Seeger, John D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4000130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24645984
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-14-47

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