Pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions to improve symptom control, functional exercise capacity and quality of life in interstitial lung disease: an evidence synthesis

Sabrina Bajwah, Jill Colquitt, Emma Loveman, Claudia Bausewein, Howard Almond, Adejoke Oluyase, Mendy Dzingina, Matthew Maddocks, Irene J. Higginson, Athol Wells

Source: ERJ Open Res, 7 (1) 00107-2020; 10.1183/23120541.00107-2020
Journal Issue: January
Disease area: Interstitial lung diseases

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