The experience of fatigue in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Background: Besides respiratory symptoms, fatigue is reported as one of the most common among people with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD. Fatigue can be described as anything from tiredness to exhaustion and the most typical is that fatigue does not disappears after rest or sleep. The experience of how fatigue affects the daily life in patients with COPD is hardly described.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Medicine

Medicin

Nursing

Omvårdnad

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