Open Access<p>External validation of the PUMA COPD diagnostic questionnaire in a general practice sample and the PLATINO study population</p>
Author(s) -
María Victorina López Varela,
María Montes de,
Fernando C. Wehrmeister,
Cecilia Rodríguez,
Larissa Ramírez,
Ana Maria Baptista Menezes
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s206250
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , population , spirometry , physical therapy , asthma , environmental health
A seven-item prescreening questionnaire (gender, age, pack-years smoking, dyspnea, sputum, cough, previous spirometry data) was developed for COPD detection in the primary care setting (PUMA Study) of four Latin America countries.