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Discriminative and predictive properties of disease-specific and generic health status indexes in elderly COPD patients

BACKGROUND: The association between bronchial obstruction severity and mortality in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is well established, but it is unknown whether disease-specific health status measures and multidimensional assessment (MDA) have comparable prognostic value. METHODS: We...

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Autores principales: Conte, Maria E, Pedone, Claudio, Forastiere, Francesco, Bellia, Vincenzo, Antonelli-Incalzi, Raffaele
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2525624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18700955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-8-14

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