Evaluating a scoring system for predicting thirty-day hospital readmissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation

Evaluating a scoring system for predicting thirty-day hospital readmissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation

Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) results in 700,000 hospitalizations annually in the United States and 12-25% of patients are readmitted within 30 days of hospital discharge. A simple scoring system to risk-stratify these patients would be useful in allocating scarce resour...

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Main Authors: Yap V, Wilcox D, ZuWallack R, Datta D
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arizona Thoracic Society 2018-06-01
Series:Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Subjects:
COPD
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
exacerbation
hospitalization
readmission
prediction
predictor
dyspnea
prednisone
receiver operating curve
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