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The effect of changes to GOLD severity stage on long term morbidity and mortality in COPD

BACKGROUND: The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) severity stage classifies Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) into groups based on symptoms, exacerbations and forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV(1)). This allows patients to change to less severe COPD st...

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Autores principales: Flynn, Robert W. V., MacDonald, Thomas M., Chalmers, James D., Schembri, Stuart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6291946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30541559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-018-0960-3