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Is nebulized saline a placebo in COPD?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine, September 2004
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Title
Is nebulized saline a placebo in COPD?
Published in
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, September 2004
DOI 10.1186/1471-2466-4-9
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Authors

Shahina Y Khan, B Ronan O'Driscoll

Abstract

Many trials of nebulized therapy have used nebulized saline as a "placebo". However, nebulized isotonic saline is sometimes used to assist sputum expectoration and relieve breathlessness in COPD patients. We designed this study to establish if nebulized saline had a placebo effect or a clinical effect.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 53 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 17%
Student > Bachelor 7 13%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Other 3 6%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 19 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 36%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 8%
Engineering 2 4%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 19 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 December 2019.
All research outputs
#5,873,643
of 22,761,738 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#392
of 1,905 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,928
of 60,642 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#1
of 3 outputs
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