Readmission in COPD patients: should we consider it a marker of quality of care or a marker of a more severe disease with a worse prognosis?

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¹ Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of COPD and Respiratory Epidemiology, Vienna, Austria Dept. of Resp. and Crit. Care, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria hartl.sylvia@aon.at.
² Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain.

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Sylvia Hartl et al. Eur Respir J. 2016 Jul.

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. 2016 Jul;48(1):281-2.

doi: 10.1183/13993003.00885-2016.

¹ Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of COPD and Respiratory Epidemiology, Vienna, Austria Dept. of Resp. and Crit. Care, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria hartl.sylvia@aon.at.
² Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain.

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Hartl S, Lopez-Campos JL, Pozo-Rodriguez F, Castro-Acosta A, Studnicka M, Kaiser B, Roberts CM. Hartl S, et al. Eur Respir J. 2016 Jan;47(1):113-21. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01391-2014. Epub 2015 Oct 22. Eur Respir J. 2016. PMID: 26493806
Readmission in COPD patients: should we consider it a marker of quality of care or a marker of a more severe disease with a worse prognosis?
Crisafulli E, Guerrero M, Chetta A, Torres A. Crisafulli E, et al. Eur Respir J. 2016 Jul;48(1):279-81. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00426-2016. Eur Respir J. 2016. PMID: 27365513 No abstract available.