Methods A prospective cohort of 212 patients with COPD was monitored using daily symptom diaries for a median of 2.8 years to characterise the time course of COPD exacerbation onset. Decision rules ...
Hospital admission and emergency department attendances for COPD exacerbations were recorded over a 3-month period and analysed on an intention-to-treat basis. Secondary outcomes included exercise ...
A clinically and functionally relevant definition of an asthma exacerbation will be invaluable in the assessment of the severity of such an event and the streamlining of the steps necessary to ...
The use of systemic corticosteroids during exacerbation decreased treatment failure rate by 46% and was associated with a mean decrease in hospital length of stay by 1.42 days when compared with ...