Population
186 patients with moderate to severe COPD with one or more admissions for acute exacerbations to two large…
Design
Cross-sectional
Follow-up
1-year period prior to current admission
Authors
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These factors may identify high-risk COPD patients; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Frequent readmissions for acute exacerbations of COPD are independently associated with longer disease duration, lower FEV1, use of psychotropic drugs, and vaccination status.
Ong et al. (2006) studied this question.
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