title: Anemia and health performance score evaluation as decisive factors for noninvasive mechanical ventilation decisions in AECOPD: are there new key cornerstones?
authors: Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain.
authors: Antonio M
authors: AM
authors: Esquinas
authors: Department of Pneumology, University Hospital of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Confalonieri
mesh_terms: D000740:Anemia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006935:Hypercapnia / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency