Real-life effectiveness and safety of salbutamol Steri-Neb™ vs. Ventolin Nebules® for exacerbations in patients with COPD: Historical cohort study

David B. Price; Eran Gefen; Gokul Gopalan; Rosie McDonald; Vicky Thomas; Simon Wan Yau Ming; Emily Davis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191404

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Real-life effectiveness and safety of salbutamol Steri-Neb™ vs. Ventolin Nebules^® for exacerbations in patients with COPD: Historical cohort study

David B. Price ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: dprice@opri.sg

Affiliations Centre of Academic Primary Care, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Observational & Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9728-9992

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Eran Gefen,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Teva Pharmaceuticals, Petach Tikva, Israel
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Gokul Gopalan,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Teva Pharmaceuticals, Frazer, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Rosie McDonald,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Observational & Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore
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Vicky Thomas,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Observational & Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore
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Simon Wan Yau Ming,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Observational & Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore
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Emily Davis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Observational & Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore
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Real-life effectiveness and safety of salbutamol Steri-Neb™ vs. Ventolin Nebules^® for exacerbations in patients with COPD: Historical cohort study

David B. Price,
Eran Gefen,
Gokul Gopalan,
Rosie McDonald,
Vicky Thomas,
Simon Wan Yau Ming,
Emily Davis

Published: January 24, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191404

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