title: Readmission in COPD patients: should we consider it a marker of quality of care or a marker of a more severe disease with a worse prognosis?
authors.affiliation: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of COPD and Respiratory Epidemiology, Vienna, Austria Dept. of Resp. and Crit. Care, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria hartl.sylvia@aon.at.
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hartl
authors.affiliation: Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Jose Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lopez-Campos
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers; D006801:Humans; D010359:Patient Readmission; D011379:Prognosis; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; D011787:Quality of Health Care
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers