Five comorbidities reflected the health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the newly developed COMCOLD index
Five comorbidities reflected the health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the newly developed COMCOLD index
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.03.005
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发表时间:
2014-08-01
影响因子:
7.2
通讯作者:
Puhan, Milo A.
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作者:
Frei, Anja;Muggensturm, Patrick;Puhan, Milo A.
Objective: This study aimed to identify those comorbidities with greatest impact on patient-reported health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to develop a comorbidity index that reflects their combined impact.Study Design and Setting: We included 408 Swiss and Dutch primary care patients with COPD from the International Collaborative Effort on Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: Exacerbation Risk Index Cohorts (ICE COLD ERIC) in this cross-sectional analysis. Primary outcome was the Feeling Thermometer, a patient-reported health status instrument. We assessed the impact of comorbidities at five cohort assessment times using multiple linear regression adjusted for FEV1, retaining comorbidities with associations P