The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 122, Issue 4 , Pages 348-355 , April 2009

Comorbidities, Patient Knowledge, and Disease Management in a National Sample of Patients with COPD

  • R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
    • Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
    • Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationRequests for reprints should be addressed to R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH, Columbia University Medical Center, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032
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  • Bartolome R. Celli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Caritas-St Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, Mass
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  • David M. Mannino, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington
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  • Thomas Petty, MD

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Medicine, University of Colorado and Rush-Presbyterian St Luke's, Chicago, Ill
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  • Stephen I. Rennard, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
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  • Frank C. Sciurba, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa
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  • James K. Stoller, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Byron M. Thomashow, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
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  • Gerard M. Turino, MD

      Affiliations

    • James P. Mara Center, St-Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY

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 Funding: The COPD Foundation and National Institutes of Health HL077612 and HL075476.

 Conflict of Interest: R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH: none. Bartolome R. Celli, MD: research grants from Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), Boehringer Ingelheim (BI), Forrest Medical, Astra Zeneca; advisory board payments from GSK, BI, Almirall, Astra Zeneca; speakers' fees from GSK, BI, Astra Zeneca, Almirall. David Mannino, MD: research funding from GSK, Pfizer, and Novartis; consultant or speakers' fees from GSK, Pfizer, BI, Astra-Zeneca, Dey, and Sepracor. Thomas Petty, MD: none. Stephen I. Rennard, MD: research grants from Almirall, Lorillard, Centocor, Novartis, GSK, Philip Morris, Institute for Science and Health, Roche; consultancy and advisory board payments from Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Almirall, Novartis, Altana, Roche, Anthera, Quintiles, GSK, Targegen; speakers' fees from Adams, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Pfizer. Frank C. Sciurba, MD: consultancy for Astra Zeneca, BI, Dey, GSK, Novartis, Pfizer, PneumRX, Respironics, Schering and Sepracor. James K. Stoller, MD, MS: consultancy for Talecris Biotherapeutics, BI; speaker for Grifols, Baxter, CSL-Behring, Pfizer, Talecris. Byron M. Thomashow, MD: speakers' fees and consultancy for BI, Pfizer and GSK. Gerard M. Turino, MD: research grant from BI; consultancy for Talecris Corporation.

 Authorship: All authors had access to the data and played a role in writing this manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(08)01072-3

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2008.09.042

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 122, Issue 4 , Pages 348-355 , April 2009

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