New GOLD classification: longitudinal data on group assignment. Respir Res. 2014;15:3. https://doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-15-3. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Karloh M, Mayer AF, Maurici R, Pizzichini MMM, Jones PW, Pizzichini E. The COPD assessment test: what do we ...
In order to optimise the reliability of the diagnostic assignment in a non-medical context, we used a simple standardised questionnaire which had previously been validated in the Confronting COPD surveys, in which it has been demonstrated to have high sensitivity (92.0%) and specificity (72.4%) ...
The assignment of EBGM scores was based on the association of glycopyrronium and AEs together (drug– event combination) with a disproportionately high occur- rence of reports, as compared to the proportion of reports in the entire ARGUS™ database for glycopyrronium and AEs independently. The ...
The study protocol and analysis plan were written prior to analysing data and pre‐registered on the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/a24t3/. All statistical analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 28.0. To assess research aims 1 and 2, we used complete case data and...
The index date was defined as the date of first assignment of the above ICD codes. Case definition The TCRD was used to confirm cell types of lung cancer. All major cancer care hospitals in Taiwan are obligated to submit cancer type, initial tumor stages and histology to Taiwan Cancer ...
Assignment to therapies is stringent. A detailed description of the PR programme was recently published.11 rehabilitation programme and one dropped out because of lack of motivation. Patient and disease characteristics are presented in Table 1. Mean length of admission to the SNF was 44.1 (±30.2)...
Assignment to mild and moderate groups were insignificant (P=0.068 and P=0.855, respectively). However, % predicted PEFR significantly overestimated % predicted FEV1 in severe and very severe groups (P=0.007 and P=0.006, respectively). Severity categories of airflow limitation based on % predicted...
WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology: Guidelines for ATC Classification and DDD Assignment, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo (2010) [20] www.promedicin.dk. Google Scholar [21] T.S. Ingebrigtsen, J.L. Marott, P. Lange, J. Hallas, B.G. Nordestgaard, J. Vest...
Note that the items are ordered according to their booklet assignment to illustrate the design Full size image Assessing item quality and calibrating the item bank The main purpose of the current study was to develop a unidimensional disease-specific item bank: the COPD-SIB. We wanted to retain...
case–control study used to develop CAPTURE.1,15 Specific methods and procedures for the larger study are presented elsewhere.1 The study was approved by a central institutional review board (IRB) (Schulman Associates) and IRBs at each study site (Colum- bia University, National Jewish Health, ...