Octogenarian patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Characteristics and usefulness of prognostic indexes.
CONCLUSION: Octogenarian patients with COPD have differential characteristics which could imply the need for different therapeutic approaches. Prognostic indexes are useful for predicting mortality in this population.
PMID: 29096969 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medicina Clinica - Category: General Medicine Tags: Med Clin (Barc) Source Type: research
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