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Measurement of short-term changes in dyspnea and disease-specific quality of life following an acute COPD exacerbation.

Shawn D Aaron, Katherine L Vandemheen, Jennifer J Clinch, Jan Ahuja, Robert J Brison, Garth Dickinson, and Paul C Hébert

Chest 121(3):688-96 (2002) PMID 11888946

To determine whether currently available measurement tools can be used to obtain valid measurements of short-term changes in dyspnea and disease-specific quality of life (QOL) in outpatients with an acute COPD exacerbation.

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