title: Health status assessment and mortality in chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure. How and how much we can delimit during NIV?
authors.affiliation: Pulmonology Department, UCIR, Hospital De Santa Maria, CHLN, Lisboa, Portugal.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care and Non Invasive Ventilatory Unit, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain.
authors.forename: Antonio M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Esquinas
mesh_terms: D000142:Acidosis, Respiratory; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D006935:Hypercapnia; D063087:Noninvasive Ventilation; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency