title: Living conditions of serious chronic respiratory insufficiency patients treated at home on oxygen therapy or assisted ventilation.
abstract: A study on the living conditions of patients on long-term oxygen therapy or assisted ventilation at home was conducted in France in January 1988. At that date, 13,500 patients had been handled by 30 regional associations. Twenty-four regional associations (80%) representing 11,079 patients (82%) participated in the study. A total of 8,091 questionnaires were processed, accounting for 73% of patients interviewed and 60% of the population under treatment.
authors.affiliation: A.N.T.A.D.I.R., Paris, France.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Muir
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Laumonier
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012931:Social Environment