Pneumonia in exacerbations of COPD: what is the clinical significance?

Samuel P Trethewey; John R Hurst; Alice M Turner

doi:10.1183/23120541.00282-2019

Pneumonia in exacerbations of COPD: what is the clinical significance?

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Jan 27;6(1):00282-2019. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00282-2019. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Samuel P Trethewey¹, John R Hurst², Alice M Turner^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Oak Tree Surgery, Liskeard, UK.
² UCL Respiratory, University College London, London, UK.
³ Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

Abstract

It is vital that clinicians identify radiological consolidation in hospitalised COPD patients, as this confers an increased mortality risk, has important implications for risk stratification and influences management http://bit.ly/2q2vH2J.

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