QUESTION: In patients with chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), do mucolytic drugs reduce exacerbations or days of illness?

P J Poole

QUESTION: In patients with chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), do mucolytic drugs reduce exacerbations or days of illness?

2002

P J Poole

per patient per month 0.09 0.16 0.07 (0.05 to 0.08) Days of illness 0.75 1.31 0.56 (0.35 to 0.77) Days of antibiotic use 0.67 1.20 0.53 (0.31 to 0.76)

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Bronchitis
Antibiotics
Disease
Intensive care medicine
Medicine
COPD
Physical therapy
pulmonary disease
Internal medicine
in patient
chronic bronchitis
per patient per month
antibiotic use

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