Factors related to the incorrect use of inhalers by asthma patients

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate inhaler technique in outpatients with asthma and to determine associations between the correctness of that technique and the level of asthma control. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study involving patients > 14 years of age with physician-diagnosed asthma. The pat...

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Main Authors: Paulo de Tarso Roth Dalcin, Denis Maltz Grutcki, Paola Paganella Laporte, Paula Borges de Lima, Samuel Millan Menegotto, Rosemary Petrik Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia 2014-01-01
Series:Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-37132014000100013&lng=en&tlng=en