Efficacy of two educational interventions about inhalation techniques in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). TECEPOC: study protocol for a partially randomized controlled trial (preference trial).

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Published in Trials on May 21, 2012

Authors

Francisca Leiva-Fernández1, José Leiva-Fernández, Fernando Zubeldia-Santoyo, Antonio García-Ruiz, Daniel Prados-Torres, Pilar Barnestein-Fonseca

Author Affiliations

1: Family and Community Medicine Teaching Unit of Malaga, Distrito Sanitario Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

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