Routine laboratory tests can predict in-hospital mortality in acute exacerbations of COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has a rising global incidence and acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) carries a high health-care economic burden. Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis is able to create decision trees to classify risk groups. We analysed routinely collected...

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Main Authors: Asiimwe, A., Brims, Fraser, Andrews, N., Prytherch, D., Higgins, B., Kilburn, S., Chauhan, A.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12483