Increased Quality of Life and Survival Rates

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2. Report from the Medical Research Council Working Party. Long Term Domiciliary Oxygen Therapy In Chronic Hypoxic Cor Pulmonale Complicating Chronic Bronchitis And Emphysemain The Lancet, Volume 317, No. 8222, 681 – 686, March 198

 

Reduced Depression

Petty T, Supportive Therapy in COPD in Chest, 1998; 113(4_supplement); 256S-262S

Cottrell J, et al. Home Oxygen Therapy : A Comparison of 2- vs 6-Month Patient Reevaluationin Chest, 1995;107 (2):358-361

 

Reduced Hospitalisation

Ringbaek TJ, et al. Does long-term oxygen therapy reduce hospitalisation in hypoxaemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? in European Respiratory Journal, 2002; 20:1, 38–42