Prediction of Acute COPD Exacerbation in the Swiss Multicenter COPD Cohort Study (TOPDOCS) by Clinical Parameters, Medication Use, and Immunological Biomarkers

Conclusions: Clinical and biomarker parameters assessed at a single point in time correlated with the frequency of AECOPD events during the year before and the year after assessment. However, only clinical parameters had fair discriminatory power in identifying patients likely to experience frequent AECOPD.Respiration
Source: Respiration - Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: research