Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài:Mortality in COPD patients discharged from hospital: the role of treatment and co-morbidity. | Respiratory Research BioMed Central Research Open Access Mortality in COPD patients discharged from hospital the role of treatment and co-morbidity Gunnar Gudmundsson 1 Thorarinn Gislason1 Eva Lindberg2 Runa Hallin2 Charlotte Suppli Ulrik3 Eva Br0ndum3 Markku M Nieminen4 Tiina Aine4 Per Bakke5 and Christer Janson2 Address Department of Respiratory Medicine Allergy and Sleep Landspitali-University Hospital Reykjavik Iceland 2Department of Medical Sciences Respiratory Medicine and Allergology Uppsala University Akademiska Sjukhuset Uppsala Sweden 3Department of Respiratory Diseases Hvidovre Hospital University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark 4Department of Respiratory Medicine Tampere University Hospital Tampere Finland and 5Haukeland University Hospital Bergen Norway Email Gunnar Gudmundsson - ggudmund@ Thorarinn Gislason - thorarig@ Eva Lindberg - Runa Hallin - Charlotte Suppli Ulrik - csulrik@ Eva Brondum - csulrik@ Markku M Nieminen - Tiina Aine - Per Bakke - pbak@ Christer Janson - Corresponding author Published 16 August 2006 Received 03 March 2006 Respiratory Research 2006 7 109 doi 1465-9921-7-109 Accepted 16 August 2006 This article is available from http content 7 1 109 2006 Gudmundsson 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 The aim of this study was to analyse mortality and associated risk factors with special emphasis on health status medications and co-morbidity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD that had been hospitalized for acute .