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The association between previous and future severe exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Updating the literature using robust statistical methodology

BACKGROUND: There is minimal evidence on the extent to which the occurrence of a severe acute exacerbation of COPD that results in hospitalization affects the subsequent disease course. Previous studies on this topic did not generate causally-interpretable estimates. Our aim was to use corrected met...

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Autores principales: Sadatsafavi, Mohsen, Xie, Hui, Etminan, Mahyar, Johnson, Kate, FitzGerald, J. Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5774719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29351331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191243