Have rates of readmission for COPD been overestimated?

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue , 2016, Pages

  White, Patrick T ^a   Harries, Timothy H ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SMOKING CESSATION; SPUTUM; HOSPITALIZATION;

HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PATIENT READMISSION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84991712447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20551010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npjpcrm.2016.66     Document Type: Letter

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