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COPD - Is There a Benefit to Prescriptions?
In the absence of clinical trial data physicians have responded to this patient population in the real world by prescribing treatments known to work for COPD or asthma. In one study they found 43% of them were being prescribed. We shouldn't forget that in COPD these medications have been demonstrated to be useful so it really highlights the importance of trying to identify these two different groups and spirometry is something that since the pandemic has become much more difficult and many practices seem to have lost access to it altogether.
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