ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2017
Overdiagnosis of COPD: precise definitions and proposals for improvement.
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Diagnosed and underdiagnosed cases of COPD in the primary care setting: Differences and similarities.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Prediction of gold stage in patients hospitalized with COPD exacerbations using blood neutrophils and demographic parameters as risk factors.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2021Article
- Development and Validation of a Method to Estimate COPD Severity in Multiple Datasets: A Retrospective Study.Pulmonary therapy · 2021Article
- Inhaled Medication Use in Smokers With Normal Spirometry.Respiratory care · 2021Article
- Time-ordered comorbidity correlations identify patients at risk of mis- and overdiagnosis.NPJ digital medicine · 2021Article
- Step-Up and Step-Down Treatment Approaches for COPD: A Holistic View of Progressive Therapies.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2021Review
- Clinical Impact of Multidisciplinary Outpatient Care on Outcomes of Patients with COPD.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2020Observational
- Quantification of inaccurate diagnosis of COPD in primary care medicine: an analysis of the COACH clinical audit.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2019Observational
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: outstanding questions and future directions.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2018Review
- Community Assessment of COPD Health Care (COACH) study: a clinical audit on primary care performance variability in COPD care.BMC medical research methodology · 2018Article
- Reliability and usefulness of spirometry performed during admission for COPD exacerbation.PloS one · 2018Article
- Geographical distribution of COPD prevalence in Europe, estimated by an inverse distance weighting interpolation technique.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2018Article
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