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SUBMITTER: Yusen RD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5822416 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yusen Roger D RD Criner Gerard J GJ Sternberg Alice L AL Au David H DH Fuhlbrigge Anne L AL Albert Richard K RK Casaburi Richard R Stoller James K JK Harrington Kathleen F KF Cooper J Allen D JAD Diaz Philip P Gay Steven S Kanner Richard R MacIntyre Neil N Martinez Fernando J FJ Piantadosi Steven S Sciurba Frank F Shade David D Stibolt Thomas T Tonascia James J Wise Robert R Bailey William C WC
Annals of the American Thoracic Society 20180101 1
The Long-Term Oxygen Treatment Trial demonstrated that long-term supplemental oxygen did not reduce time to hospital admission or death for patients who have stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and resting and/or exercise-induced moderate oxyhemoglobin desaturation, nor did it provide benefit for any other outcome measured in the trial. Nine months after initiation of patient screening, after randomization of 34 patients to treatment, a trial design amendment broadened the eligible popu ...[more]