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Volume 38, Issue 4 , Pages 533-545 , October 2009

A Community Population Survey of Prevalence and Severity of Dyspnea in Adults

David C. Currow, MPH, FRACP
- Department of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
- Address correspondence to: David C. Currow, MPH, FRACP, Department of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, 700 Goodwood Road, Daw Park, South Australia 5041, Australia.
John L. Plummer, PhD, AStat
- Department of Anaesthesia, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia
Alan Crockett, PSM, MPH, PhD, Grad Cert HE, FANZSRS
- Discipline of General Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Amy P. Abernethy, MD
- Department of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
- Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

,Accepted 19 February 2009.

The flowchart of engaging participants for the South Australian Health Omnibus survey in 2006 and 2007.

The flowchart of engaging participants for the South Australian Health Omnibus survey in 2006 and 2007.
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Conceptual outline of the population that is breathless and limitations in survey work to define the “true” level of breathlessness accounting for under- and overestimates.

Conceptual outline of the population that is breathless and limitations in survey work to define the “true” level of breathlessness accounting for under- and overestimates.
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