Top articles published in 2020

Research Highlights

• COVID-19 poses novel challenges for global primary care

  COVID-19 is presenting novel challenges for global primary care, and its response has been inspiring, varied, and also troubling.

  • Siân Williams
  • Ioanna Tsiligianni

  EditorialOpen Access18 Jun 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Asthma control and COPD symptom burden in patients using fixed-dose combination inhalers (SPRINT study)

  • Nicolas Roche
  • Vicente Plaza
  • Dave Singh

  ArticleOpen Access7 Jan 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

• COPD and asthma in patients with opioid dependency: a cross-sectional study in primary care

  • S. Mehta
  • N. Parmar
  • M. Ashworth

  ArticleOpen Access14 Jan 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Daytime symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review

  • Ioanna Tsiligianni
  • Janwillem W. H. Kocks

  Review ArticleOpen Access21 Feb 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Accuracy of Vitalograph lung monitor as a screening test for COPD in primary care

  • A. P. Dickens
  • D. A. Fitzmaurice
  • R. E. Jordan

  ArticleOpen Access3 Jan 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Interventions to improve medication adherence in tuberculosis patients: a systematic review of randomized controlled studies

  • Ivan S. Pradipta
  • Daphne Houtsma
  • Eelko Hak

  Review ArticleOpen Access11 May 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Are COPD self-management mobile applications effective? A systematic review and meta-analysis

  • G. Shaw
  • M. E. Whelan
  • A. J. Farmer

  Review ArticleOpen Access1 Apr 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  A retrospective database study of oral corticosteroid and bisphosphonate prescribing patterns in England

  • Christos V. Chalitsios
  • Dominick E. Shaw
  • Tricia M. McKeever

  ArticleOpen Access13 Feb 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Bringing asthma care into the twenty-first century

  • Kjell Larsson
  • Hannu Kankaanranta
  • Charlotte Suppli Ulrik

  Review ArticleOpen Access5 Jun 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Improving primary care management of asthma: do we know what really works?

  • Monica J. Fletcher
  • Ioanna Tsiligianni
  • Thys van der Molen

  PerspectiveOpen Access17 Jun 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Activating primary care COPD patients with multi-morbidity through tailored self-management support

  • Sameera Ansari
  • Hassan Hosseinzadeh
  • Nicholas Zwar

  ArticleOpen Access3 Apr 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Independent risk factors for death in patients admitted for asthma exacerbation in Taiwan

  • Yuh-Lih Chang
  • Hsin-Kuo Ko
  • Yueh-Ching Chou

  ArticleOpen Access19 Mar 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Quality of spirometry and related diagnosis in primary care with a focus on clinical use

  • S. J. van de Hei
  • B. M. J. Flokstra-de Blok
  • J. W. H. Kocks

  ArticleOpen Access15 May 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Association of low-dosage systemic corticosteroid use with disease burden in asthma

  • Kazuto Matsunaga
  • Mitsuru Adachi
  • Yuji Tohda

  ArticleOpen Access4 Aug 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
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  Data-driven questionnaire-based cluster analysis of asthma in Swedish adults

  • Marta A. Kisiel
  • Xingwu Zhou
  • Christer Janson

  ArticleOpen Access6 Apr 2020 npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine