A descriptive cohort study of withdrawal from inhaled corticosteroids in COPD patients

Abstract Inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy is widely prescribed without a history of exacerbations and consensus guidelines suggest withdrawal of ICS in these patients would reduce the risk of side effects and promote cost-effective prescribing. The study describes the prescribing behaviour in th...

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Main Authors: Smit Patel, Scott Dickinson, Kevin Morris, Helen F. Ashdown, James D. Chalmers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-022-00288-6