Impact and prevention of severe exacerbations of COPD: a review of the evidence - Halpin, David MG; Miravitlles, Marc; Metzdorf, Norbert; Celli, Bartolomé (International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 2017)
Keywords: Adrenal Cortex Hormones - therapeutic use; Analysis; Anti-Bacterial Agents - adverse effects; Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Antibiotics; Bronchodilator Agents - therapeutic use; bronchodilators; Care and treatment; Chronic obstructive lung disease; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Comorbidity; Disease Progression; Dyspnea; Emergency medical care; Epidemiology; Evidence-Based Medicine; Health aspects; Hospital Mortality; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; long-acting muscarinic antagonist; Lung - drug effects; Lung - physiopathology; Mortality; Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; Patients; Physiology; Prevention; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnosis; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - mortality; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - therapy; Pulmonary embolisms; Quality of Life; Recovery of Function; Respiration, Artificial; Respiratory Therapy - methods; Review; Risk Factors; Risk Reduction Behavior; severe COPD exacerbations; Time Factors; treatment; Treatment Outcome; United Kingdom--UK; United States--US; severe COPD exacerbations; treatment; hospitalization; long-acting muscarinic antagonist; bronchodilators; prevention