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Prevention of Morbidity in sickle cell disease - qualitative outcomes, pain and quality of life in a randomised cross-over pilot trial of overnight supplementary oxygen and auto-adjusting continuous positive airways pressure (POMS2a): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Sickle cell anaemia (SCA) is an inherited disorder of haemoglobin. Patients experience long-term health care problems, affecting quality of life (QOL) including frequent acute pain, which is difficult to document in trials except as hospital admissions. Pilot data suggests that overnight...

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Autores principales: Howard, Jo, Inusa, Baba, Liossi, Christina, Jacob, Eufemia, Murphy, Patrick B, Hart, Nicholas, Gavlak, Johanna, Sahota, Sati, Chorozoglou, Maria, Nwosu, Carol, Gwam, Maureen, Gupta, Atul, Rees, David C, Thein, Swee Lay, Reading, Isabel C, Kirkham, Fenella J, Cheng, Man Yeung Edith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4548303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26303626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0883-y