Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and mechanical ventilation: A reevaluation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-78

  Moran, John L ^a   Green, John V ^a   Homan, Sean D ^a   Leeson, Richard J ^a   Leppard, Phillip I ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Albumin; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Co morbidity; Cox proportional hazards models; Intensive care; Length of stay; Mechanical; Multivariate analysis; Noninvasive; Survival; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRACHEOTOMY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; APACHE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031985751     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199801000-00019     Document Type: Article

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