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Giulio Masotti

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From Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Guidelines to Current Clinical Practice

2006

Background: The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines have been promulgated to improve the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). Objective: To evaluate the extent to which the current therapeutic approach to COPD conforms to GOLD guidelines. Methods: This was a multicentre observational study of elderly COPD patients enrolled for acute care in general medicine or geriatric wards in tertiary hospitals in Italy in April 2002. Our series consisted of 471 patients >64 years of age consecutively admitted for acute exacerbations of COPD to wards participating in the study. Data describing drugs used prior to exacerbation and prescribed at …

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International conference on biomedical aspects of aging research December 10-13, 1997 Fondazione Cini, San Giorgio, Venezia, Italy

1998

0303 health sciences03 medical and health sciencesAging0302 clinical medicineGeriatrics gerontologybusiness.industryLibrary scienceMedicine030212 general & internal medicineGeriatrics and Gerontologybusiness030304 developmental biology
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