PLATINO, a nine-year follow-up study of COPD in the city of São Paulo, Brazil: the problem of underdiagnosis

OBJECTIVE: To determine the underdiagnosis rate in new COPD cases at the end of a nine-year follow-up period-in the study designated "Projeto Latino-Americano de Investigação em Obstrução Pulmonar" (PLATINO, Latin-American Pulmonary Obstruction Investigation Project)-and compare that with...

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Main Authors: Graciane Laender Moreira, Beatriz Martins Manzano, Mariana Rodrigues Gazzotti, Oliver Augusto Nascimento, Rogelio Perez-Padilla, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Jose Roberto Jardim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia 2014-01-01
Series:Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-37132014000100030&lng=en&tlng=en