Successful patient self-management of COPD requires hands-on guidance

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands. Electronic address: a.l.kruis@lumc.nl.
• ² Department of General Practice, University of Maastricht, Research Institute CAPHRI, Maastricht, Netherlands.
• ³ Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Sint Franciscus Gasthuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• ⁴ Department of General Practice and Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
• ⁵ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands.