Article
Association of Rural Living with COPD-related Hospitalizations and Deaths in US Veterans
2022-09-22
Abstract excerpt
It is unclear whether the high burden of COPD in rural areas is related to worse outcomes in patients with COPD or is because the prevalence of COPD is higher in rural areas. We assessed the association of rural living with acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPDs)-related hospitalization and mortality. We retrospectively analyzed Veterans Affairs (VA) and Medicare data of a nationwide cohort of veterans with COPD age...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e2ec61b5-855a-563d-a32a-13e23596e519
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2038555/v1
