title: Clarifying aspects of noninvasive mechanical ventilation in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
authors: Respiratory Intensive Care and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
authors: Annia
authors: A
authors: Schreiber
authors: Intensive Care and Noninvasive Ventilatory Unit, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain.
authors: Antonio
authors: A
authors: Esquinas
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D063087:Noninvasive Ventilation; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive