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Disease Burden of Patients with Asthma/COPD Overlap in a US Claims Database: Impact of ICD-9 Coding-based Definitions.
COPD - 1 Apr 2017
Wurst Keele E, St Laurent Samantha, Hinds David, Davis Kourtney J
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The inclusion of an asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap syndrome (ACOS) population in the 2015 Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease strategic documents has raised questions about the profile of these patients in clinical practice, as they are mostly excluded from asthma and COPD clinical trials. We estimated the disease burden, co-morbidities, and respiratory treatments...
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