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ReviewInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2021

Treating COPD Patients with Inhaled Medications in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond: Options and Rationales for Patients at Home.

Arzu Ari, Karen Blain, Said Soubra, Nicola A Hanania

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Review in International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Arzu AriDepartment of Respiratory Care, Texas State University, Round Rock, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3126-8144
Karen BlainDepartment of Respiratory Therapy, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA.
Said SoubraDepartment of Respiratory Care, Texas State University, Round Rock, TX, USA.
Nicola A HananiaAirways Clinical Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Texas State University · USBaylor College of Medicine · USUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 has affected millions of patients, caregivers, and clinicians around the world. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spreads via droplets and close contact from person to person, and there has been an increased concern regarding aerosol drug delivery due to the potential aerosolizing of viral particles. To date, little focus has been given to aerosol drug delivery to patients with COVID-19 treated at home to minimize their hospital utilization. Since most hospitals were stressed with multiple admissions and experienced restricted healthcare resources in the era of COVID-19 pandemic, treating patients with COPD at home became essential to minimize their hospital utilization. However, guidance on how to deliver aerosolized medications safely and effectively to this patient population treated at home is still lacking. In this paper, we provide some strategies and rationales for device and interface selection, delivery technique, and infection control for patients with COPD who are being treated at home in the era of COVID-19 and beyond.

Indexed as

COVID-19Pharmaceutical PreparationsPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Pharmaceutical PreparationsaerosolscoronavirusCOVID-19homecareinfection controlinhalersnebulizersSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34611397
PMCPMC8487292
OpenAlexW3201738031

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