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Long-term natural history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: severe exacerbations and mortality

BACKGROUND: The long-term natural history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in terms of successive severe exacerbations and mortality is unknown. METHODS: The authors formed an inception cohort of patients from their first ever hospitalisation for COPD during 1990–2005, using the healt...

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Autores principales: Suissa, Samy, Dell'Aniello, Sophie, Ernst, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22684094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201518