Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may incur huge medical expenses, resulting in a heavy socioeconomic burden. A recent study sought to predict the level of healthcare utilization resources.

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September 8, 2009 — The ADO index, a new score for predicting a patient's risk of dying of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), appears to perform better than the currently used BODE index, ...

Researchers have developed an index scale to help physicians predict a patient's risk of dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The ADO index can help physicians assess the severity ...

How should we employ multidimensional indices of COPD? Ideally, they should serve to work towards ‘optimal COPD care’, based on the concept that here-and-now goals should be integrated with goals to ...