Why the study?
Patients hospitalized for COPD exacerbation are at risk of early readmission, and understanding related frequency and risk factors can help develop readmission reduction strategies.
Population
110 patients over 40 years of age hospitalized with AECOPD
Comparison
Readmitted vs nonreadmitted patients within 30 days of discharge
Design
Prospective comparative case series study
Follow-up
30 days
Authors
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May inform post-AECOPD risk stratification; case-report data leave open generalizability and require prospective validation.
Readmissions within 30 days after AECOPD hospitalization are common (30.9%) and costly, with low FEV1% and shorter COPD diagnosis time being significant predictors.
Yılmaz et al. (2021) studied this question.
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