Residual respiratory disability after successful treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

J Taylor, ML Bastos, S Lachapelle-Chisholm… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) can result in long-term health consequences,
even after successful treatment. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to …

Correlation between disease severity factors and EQ-5D utilities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

C Esquinas, MA Ramon, A Nuñez, J Molina… - Quality of Life …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is associated with poor health
outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of this study was to …

Relative impact of COPD and comorbidities on generic health-related quality of life: a pooled analysis of the COSYCONET patient cohort and control subjects from the …

ME Wacker, RA Jörres, A Karch, A Koch, J Heinrich… - Respiratory …, 2016 - Springer
Background Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is an important patient-reported outcome
measure used to describe the burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) …

The contribution of symptoms and comorbidities to the economic impact of COPD: an analysis of the German COSYCONET cohort

ME Wacker, K Kitzing, RA Jörres, R Leidl… - … journal of chronic …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background Although patients with COPD often have various comorbidities and symptoms,
limited data are available on the contribution of these aspects to health care costs. This …

Cost-effectiveness of combination therapy umeclidinium/vilanterol versus tiotropium in symptomatic COPD Spanish patients

M Miravitlles, JB Gáldiz, A Huerta… - … journal of chronic …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Umeclidinium/vilanterol (UMEC/VI) is a novel fixed dose combination of a long-
acting muscarinic receptor antagonist (LAMA) and a long-acting beta 2 receptor antagonist …

A Markov decision process approach to optimizing cancer therapy using multiple modalities

K Maass, M Kim - Mathematical medicine and biology: a journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
There are several different modalities, eg surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, that are
currently used to treat cancer. It is common practice to use a combination of these modalities …

Health-related quality of life of patients diagnosed with COPD in Extremadura, Spain: results from an observational study

M Merino, R Villoro, Á Hidalgo-Vega… - Health and quality of life …, 2019 - Springer
Background COPD is a high prevalence chronic disease that involves large reductions of
health-related quality of life (HRQL) of patients. This study aims to describe the HRQL of …

Impacto económico de las exacerbaciones agudas en EPOC

M Pérez, R Puig-Peiró, S Aceituno… - Rev. patol. respir, 2016 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
Objetivo: Sintetizar la información disponible acerca de estudios económicos relacionados
con las exacerbaciones agudas asociadas a la EPOC publicados en España durante los …

Burden of disease among exacerbating patients with COPD treated with triple therapy in Spain

B Alcázar-Navarrete, F García-Rio… - … Journal of Chronic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background The cost of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Spain has been
studied from different perspectives, but parameters such as the patient's phenotype have …

[HTML][HTML] A cross-sectional assessment of health-related quality of life among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

MA Garcia-Gordillo, D Collado-Mateo… - Iranian Journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of mortality
characterized by progressive airflow obstruction and inflammation in the airways, which has …