Mortality and readmission risk for hospitalised patients with acute exacerbation of COPD with and without spirometric obstruction: a longitudinal observational study in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the clinical features and outcomes in patients with pre-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and COPD hospitalised for confirmed or suspected acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD).

Design

A multicentre, longitudinal observational cohort study.

Setting

Data were obtained from the AECOPD Inpatient Registry Study in China.

Participants

5896 patients hospitalised for AECOPD between 2017 and 2021.

Outcomes

Patients were divided into the COPD (n=5201) and pre-COPD (n=695) groups according to the lung function test results. The outcomes of interest included all-cause, respiratory disease-related and cardiovascular disease-related deaths as well as readmissions within 30 days and 12 months after discharge. Cumulative incidence function

SUBMITTER: Ren X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10254868 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature