Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 14-18, October 2010

Disease-specific education in the primary care setting increases the knowledge of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A randomized controlled trial

  • Kylie Hill

      Affiliations

    • Respiratory Medicine, West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Suzanna Mangovski-Alzamora

      Affiliations

    • Respiratory Medicine, West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Maria Blouin

      Affiliations

    • Respiratory Medicine, West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Gordon Guyatt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Diane Heels-Ansdell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Epidemiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Pauline Bragaglia

      Affiliations

    • Algoma District Medical Group, Group Health Centre, Sault Saint Marie, Ontario, Canada
    • Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laurentian University, Sudbury and Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Itamar Tamari

      Affiliations

    • Stonegate Community Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Karen Jones

      Affiliations

    • North Lanark Community Health Centre, Lanark, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Roger Goldstein

      Affiliations

    • Respiratory Medicine, West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: West Park Healthcare Centre, Respiratory Medicine, 82 Buttonwood Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada M6M 2J5. Tel.: +1 416 243 3631; fax: +1 416 243 8947.

Received 25 June 2009; received in revised form 19 September 2009; accepted 22 September 2009. published online 23 October 2009.

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PII: S0738-3991(09)00451-0

doi:10.1016/j.pec.2009.09.035

Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 14-18, October 2010

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