1986
DOI: 10.1016/0007-0971(86)90008-2
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What determines whether an elderly patient can use a metered dose inhaler correctly?

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“…VAN DER PALEN et al [30] identified that failure to exhale prior to inhalation was the most frequently presented error in patients aged 18-65 years, implying that knowledge deficits as opposed to physical functioning may be of greater influence. This contrasted with errors identified in older adults [31][32][33][34], in which tasks dependent more on physical abilities, such as failure to breath-hold and lack of inhalation/actuation coordination [31,33] occurred more frequently. However, due to the lack of heterogeneity between studies with regard to recruitment, methodology and analysis, further study involving direct comparison within a controlled environment is required to assess result reproducibility.…”
Section: Results Validitymentioning
confidence: 58%
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“…VAN DER PALEN et al [30] identified that failure to exhale prior to inhalation was the most frequently presented error in patients aged 18-65 years, implying that knowledge deficits as opposed to physical functioning may be of greater influence. This contrasted with errors identified in older adults [31][32][33][34], in which tasks dependent more on physical abilities, such as failure to breath-hold and lack of inhalation/actuation coordination [31,33] occurred more frequently. However, due to the lack of heterogeneity between studies with regard to recruitment, methodology and analysis, further study involving direct comparison within a controlled environment is required to assess result reproducibility.…”
Section: Results Validitymentioning
confidence: 58%
“…There is substantial evidence of significant inverse proportionalities between cognitive status and the ability to successfully learn technique [8,42,43]. ALLEN and PRIOR [31] identified that only individuals with full cognitive function could be trained successfully in accurate technique. Explicit abbreviated mental test score (AMT), mini-mental test score and EXIT25 score threshold levels have also been identified at which patients can be trained in the use of certain devices [8,35,[42][43][44], providing support for such an association.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In a UK based study of people over the age of 70 years living at home, 15.8% of subjects were using an inhaler, of whom 42.8% were using a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) [16]. Despite their wide prescription many patients cannot use pMDIs correctly, even with education and training [13,18,19]. Lenney et al demonstrated that only 79% of patients could use a pMDI correctly after expert training [15].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…It is now well established that lung deposition and clinical response to pharmaceutical aerosols packaged in MOls is greatly influenced by the technique used to inhale the aerosol (4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11). Although it is a common belief that many patients do not use their MOts properly (3,(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17), there are no objective data directly comparing different groups of patients to determine whether there are specific characteristics, such as age, gender or diagnosis, associated with the risk of incorrect MOl technique. The absence of objective comparisons of MOl technique among different groups of patients represents a potentially important gap in the understanding of asthma morbidity.…”
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