Discriminative and predictive properties of disease-specific and generic health status indexes in elderly COPD patients

Discriminative and predictive properties of disease-specific and generic health status indexes in elderly COPD patients

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The association between bronchial obstruction severity and mortality in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is well established, but it is unknown whether disease-specific health status measures and multidimensional assessme...

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Main Authors: Forastiere Francesco, Bellia Vincenzo, Pedone Claudio, Conte Maria E, Antonelli-Incalzi Raffaele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-08-01
Series:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2466/8/14

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