Specialist respiratory outreach: a case-finding initiative for identifying undiagnosed COPD in primary care
Abstract COPD remains largely undiagnosed or is diagnosed late in the course of disease. We report findings of a specialist outreach programme to identify undiagnosed COPD in primary care. An electronic case-finding algorithm identified 1602 at-risk patients from 12 practices who were invited to att...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-02-01
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Series: | npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-021-00219-x |