Healthcare costs are reduced when asthma is treated with budesonide and formoterol in a single inhaler compared with the same medication via separate inhalers

L. Rosenhall, K. Ericsson, S. Borg, F. Andersson (Stockholm, Lund, Sweden)

Source: Annual Congress 2001 - Asthma
Session: Asthma
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 446
Disease area: Airway diseases

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