Effect of Home Noninvasive Ventilation With Oxygen Therapy vs Oxygen Therapy Alone on Hospital Readmission or Death After an Acute COPD Exacerbation

B. Murphy, Patrick; Rehal, Sunita; Arbane, Gill; C Bourke, Stephen; M.A. Calverley, Peter; M. Crook, Angela; Dowson, Lee; Duffy, N; Gibson, Gretchen; Hughes, Philip; R. Hurst, John; Lewis, Keir; Mukherjee, Rahul; H. Nickol, Annabel; Oscroft, Nicholas; Patout, Maxime; Pepperell, Justin; Smith, Ian; Stradling, John; A. Wedzicha, Jadwiga; I. Polkey, Michael; Elliott, Mark; Hart, Nicholas

doi:10.1001/jama.2017.4451

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Effect of Home Noninvasive Ventilation With Oxygen Therapy vs Oxygen Therapy Alone on Hospital Readmission or Death After an Acute COPD Exacerbation

Published in JAMA • May 21, 2017

Authors:

Patrick B. Murphy

Sunita Rehal

Gill Arbane

Abstract

Importance: Outcomes after exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requiring acute noninvasive ventilation (NIV) are poor and there are few treatments to prevent hospital readmission and death. Objective: To investigate the effect of home NIV plus oxygen on time to readmission ...

Subject

Medicine

COPD

Interquartile range

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