Exacerbations and health care resource utilization in patients with airflow limitation diseases attending a primary care setting: the PUMA study

Maria Montes de Oca¹
Carlos Aguirre²
Maria Victorina Lopez Varela³
Maria E Laucho-Contreras¹
Alejandro Casas²
Filip Surmont⁴

1Service of Pneumology, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; 2Colombian Pneumological Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia; 3Universidad de la República, Facultad de Medicina, Hospital Maciel, Montevideo, Uruguay; 4Medical Affairs, AstraZeneca Latin America, Coral Gables, FL, USA

International Journal of COPD 2016:11 3059–3067