Asthma in adult hospitalized patient: a standardized care plan
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airway that affects more than 300 millions people all around the world with independence of the sociocultural level of development. The fact of being an illness with a high prevalence, makes that costs generated by asthma is higher than those generated...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Enfermería
2008-03-01
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| Series: | NURE Investigación |
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| Online Access: | http://www.fuden.es/protocolos_detalle.cfm?ID_PROTOCOLO=85&ID_PROTOCOLO_INI=1 |
| Summary: | Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airway that affects more than 300 millions people all around the world with independence of the sociocultural level of development. The fact of being an illness with a high prevalence, makes that costs generated by asthma is higher than those generated by AIDS and tuberculosis together.As asthma has a complex ethiology and treatment, is extremely important to get the patient to understand his illness, its therapeutics and persuade him to get a coping style that makes it possible to put into practise a number of measures in order to decrease the illness consequences. |
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| ISSN: | 1697-218X |