Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : What determines subjective health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: importance of symptoms in subjective health status of COPD patients | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access What determines subjective health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease importance of symptoms in subjective health status of COPD patients Signe Berit Bentsen 1 2 5 Anne Hildur Henriksen3 Tore Wentzel-Larsen4 Berit Rokne Hanestad5 and Astrid Klopstad Wahl6 Address 1Stord Haugesund University College Department of Nursing Education Haugesund Norway 2Learning and Coping Centre Haugesund Hospital Haugesund Norway 3Department of Respiratory Medicine University Hospital of Trondheim Trondheim Norway 4Centre for Clinical Research Haukeland University Hospital Bergen Norway 5Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care University of Bergen Bergen Norway and institute of Nursing and Health Science University of Oslo Oslo Norway Email Signe Berit Bentsen - Anne Hildur Henriksen - Tore Wentzel- Larsen - Berit Rokne Hanestad - Astrid Klopstad Wahl - Corresponding author Published 18 December 2008 Received 19 September 2008 I -u J n iiir J_ in I in 1- z I Ir Accepted 18 December 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 115 doi l477-7525-6-115 This article is available from http content 6 1 1 15 2008 Bentsen et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Subjective health status is the result of an interaction between physiological and psychosocial factors in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD . However there is little understanding of multivariate explanations of subjective health status in COPD. The purpose of this study .