Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Hospital and intensive care unit outcomes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

International Journal of COPD

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 819-823

  Alaithan, Abdulsalam M ^a   Memon, Javed I ^a   Rehmani, Rifat S ^a   Qureshi, Arif A ^a   Salam, Abdul ^b  

^a King Abdul Aziz Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Intensive care unit; Mortality rates

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SMOKING; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872356797     PISSN: 11769106     EISSN: 11782005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/COPD.S37611     Document Type: Article

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