TY  - GEN
AU  - Kern,David M
AU  - Williams,Setareh A
AU  - Tunceli,Ozgur
AU  - Wessman,Catrin
AU  - Zhou,Siting
AU  - Pethick,Ned
AU  - Elhefni,Hanaa
AU  - Trudo,Frank
TI  - A US database study characterizing patients initiating a budesonide-formoterol combination versus tiotropium bromide as initial maintenance therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
SN  - 1178-2005
PY  - 2015///0224
KW  - Adrenergic beta-2 Receptor Agonists
KW  - adverse effects
KW  - Adult
KW  - Age Factors
KW  - Aged
KW  - Bronchodilator Agents
KW  - Budesonide
KW  - Chi-Square Distribution
KW  - Cholinergic Antagonists
KW  - Comorbidity
KW  - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW  - Data Mining
KW  - Databases, Factual
KW  - Drug Combinations
KW  - Drug Costs
KW  - Ethanolamines
KW  - Female
KW  - Formoterol Fumarate
KW  - Glucocorticoids
KW  - Health Expenditures
KW  - Humans
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Odds Ratio
KW  - Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
KW  - diagnosis
KW  - Scopolamine Derivatives
KW  - Sex Factors
KW  - Time Factors
KW  - Tiotropium Bromide
KW  - Treatment Outcome
KW  - United States
KW  - epidemiology
N1  - Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S64491
ER  -