INHALERS INCORRECT USE REMAINS COMMON AMONG PATIENTS ; AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY

• In: Poster Session
• At: Düsseldorf (Germany) (2015)
• Type: Poster
• By: FARRAG, Nada (Misr International University, Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Cairo, Egypt)
• Co-author(s): Nada Hazem Mohammed
  
• Abstract:

  A large proportion of patients prescribed inhaled medications do not use their inhalers correctly, this influences the clinical effectiveness of delivered drugs, which in turn leads to suboptimal disease control.

   A nonsystematic audit was conducted on 173 asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients using inhalers who presented

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