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Multi-morbidities are Not a Driving Factor for an Increase of COPD-Related 30-Day Readmission Risk

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in the United States. COPD is expensive to treat, whereas the quality of care is difficult to evaluate due to the high prevalence of multi-morbidity among COPD patients. In the US, the Hospital...

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Autores principales: Lin, Shuo-yu, Xue, Hong, Deng, Yangyang, Chukmaitov, Askar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6970247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32021153
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S230072