Tsiligianni, Ioanna
Goodridge, Donna
Marciniuk, Darcy
Hull, Sally
Bourbeau, Jean
Article History
Received: 22 February 2015
Accepted: 24 February 2015
First Online: 7 May 2015
Competing interests
: JB declares peer reviewed government grants (for conducting research in COPD self-management 'Living Well with COPD' and the longitudinal population-based Canadian Cohort Obstructive Lung Disease (CanCOLD) study) from Canadian Institute of Health Research Rx&D collaborative programme (Astra Zeneca, Boehringer- Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Nycomed, Novartis), Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CRRN), Respiratory Health Network of the FRQS and Research Institute of the MUHC. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.