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Comparison of disease-severity measures within severe and very severe COPD patients: results from a nationally representative chart review and patient survey

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to compare spirometry- and risk + symptom-based classification systems to physician-based severity assessment and find which system is most predictive of patient-reported health status, as measured by the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire for COPD (chronic obstructive...

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Autores principales: Solem, Caitlyn T, Sun, Shawn X, Liu, Sizhu, Macahilig, Cynthia, Katyal, Monica, Gao, Xin, Shorr, Andrew F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25284999
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S66798