Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Validity and Reliability of a Portable Device in Non-Specialized Healthcare Settings

Cristina Represas-Represas; Alberto Fernández-Villar; Alberto Ruano-Raviña; Ana Priegue-Carrera; Maribel Botana-Rial; study group of “Validity of COPD-6 in non-specialized healthcare settings”

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145571

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Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Validity and Reliability of a Portable Device in Non-Specialized Healthcare Settings

Cristina Represas-Represas ,

* E-mail: cristina.represas.represas@sergas.es

Affiliation Pulmonology Department, NeumoVigoI+i Research Group, University Hospital Complex of Vigo (CHUVI), Estructura Organizativa de Xestión Integrada de Vigo (EOXI Vigo), BiomedicalResearchInstitute of Vigo (IBIV), Vigo, Spain
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Alberto Fernández-Villar,

Affiliation Pulmonology Department, NeumoVigoI+i Research Group, University Hospital Complex of Vigo (CHUVI), Estructura Organizativa de Xestión Integrada de Vigo (EOXI Vigo), BiomedicalResearchInstitute of Vigo (IBIV), Vigo, Spain
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Alberto Ruano-Raviña,

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and PublicHealth, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain
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Ana Priegue-Carrera,

Affiliation Pulmonology Department, NeumoVigoI+i Research Group, University Hospital Complex of Vigo (CHUVI), Estructura Organizativa de Xestión Integrada de Vigo (EOXI Vigo), BiomedicalResearchInstitute of Vigo (IBIV), Vigo, Spain
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Maribel Botana-Rial,

Affiliation Pulmonology Department, NeumoVigoI+i Research Group, University Hospital Complex of Vigo (CHUVI), Estructura Organizativa de Xestión Integrada de Vigo (EOXI Vigo), BiomedicalResearchInstitute of Vigo (IBIV), Vigo, Spain
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study group of “Validity of COPD-6 in non-specialized healthcare settings”

¶Membership of the study group of “Validity of COPD-6 in non-specialized healthcare settings” is provided in the Acknowledgments.
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Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Validity and Reliability of a Portable Device in Non-Specialized Healthcare Settings

Cristina Represas-Represas,
Alberto Fernández-Villar,
Alberto Ruano-Raviña,
Ana Priegue-Carrera,
Maribel Botana-Rial,
study group of “Validity of COPD-6 in non-specialized healthcare settings”

Published: January 4, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145571

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