15-year Mortality After Hospitalization for Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (MORTCOP)

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mortality; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Exacerbation Copd

Treatments: Other: no interventions. observational study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02972775

16N164

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators examine the 15-year mortality after an admission for an exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD).

Full description

Several prognostic factors will be examined. Cause of death will be examined. Data will be recruited from medical records and calling general practitioners to find out if a patient is still alive. Statistical analysis will be done with Kaplan Meier, Cox proportional hazards and Chi square

Enrollment: 845 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• admission with exacerbation of COPD

Exclusion criteria

• none