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Project

COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and comorbdities: The untold stories
Code
3F001408
Looptijd
01-10-2008 → 30-09-2013
Financiering
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Education curriculum
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Respiratory medicine
    • Respiratory medicine
    • Respiratory medicine
Trefwoorden
functionele toestand comorbiditeit COPD
 
Projectomschrijving
 

Patients with COPD often have multiple chronic diseases and need complex care, wich we want to optimize. In primary care we compose a cohort of 150 patients with COPD and comorbidity wich we sescribe by biomedical variables and validated instrumentes for functioning and disability. Wich variables correlate with need of care? Can a prospective cohort study define prognostic markers for mortality, growing morbidity and loss of independence?