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SUBMITTER: Stallberg B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6131165 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
NPJ primary care respiratory medicine 20180910 1
This study aimed to generate real-world evidence to assess the burden of comorbidities in COPD patients, to effectively manage these patients and optimize the associated healthcare resource allocation. ARCTIC is a large, real-world, retrospective cohort study conducted in Swedish COPD patients using electronic medical record data collected between 2000 and 2014. These patients were studied for prevalence of various comorbidities and for association of these comorbidities with exacerbations, mort ...[more]