Open AccessPredicting Future Health Risk in COPD: Differential Impact of Disease-Specific and Multi-Morbidity-Based Risk Stratification
Author(s) -
D. J. Groves,
Urvee Karsanji,
Rachael A. Evans,
Neil Greening,
Sally Singh,
Jennifer K Quint,
Hannah Whittaker,
Matthew Richardson,
James R. Barrett,
Stephen P. Sutch,
Michael Steiner
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s303202
Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , copd , risk assessment , disease , risk stratification , area under the curve , severity of illness , predictive modelling , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , statistics , computer security , computer science , mathematics
Multi-morbidity contributes to mortality and hospitalisation in COPD, but it is uncertain how this interacts with disease severity in risk prediction. We compared contributions of multi-morbidity and disease severity factors in modelling future health risk using UK primary care healthcare data.