The Breathing, Thinking, Functioning clinical model: a proposal to facilitate evidence-based breathlessness management in chronic respiratory disease
Abstract Refractory breathlessness is a highly prevalent and distressing symptom in advanced chronic respiratory disease. Its intensity is not reliably predicted by the severity of lung pathology, with unhelpful emotions and behaviours inadvertently exacerbating and perpetuating the problem. Improve...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-04-01
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Series: | npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-017-0024-z |