TY - JOUR AU - Quintana, José M. AU - Esteban, Cristóbal AU - Barrio, Irantzu AU - Garcia-Gutierrez, Susana AU - Gonzalez, Nerea AU - Arostegui, Inmaculada AU - Lafuente, Iratxe AU - Bare, Marisa AU - Blasco, Juan Antonio AU - Vidal, Silvia AU - the IRYSS-COPD group PY - 2011 DA - 2011/11/24 TI - The IRYSS-COPD appropriateness study: objectives, methodology, and description of the prospective cohort JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 322 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often experience exacerbations of the disease that require hospitalization. Current guidelines offer little guidance for identifying patients whose clinical situation is appropriate for admission to the hospital, and properly developed and validated severity scores for COPD exacerbations are lacking. To address these important gaps in clinical care, we created the IRYSS-COPD Appropriateness Study. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-322 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-11-322 ID - Quintana2011 ER -