The Clinical and Economic Impact of Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Cohort of Hospitalized Patients

• Francesco Blasi,

  Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, IRCCS Fondazione Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

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• Giancarlo Cesana,

  Affiliation CESP, Research Centre on Public Health, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano – Bicocca, Monza, Italy

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• Sara Conti,

  Affiliation CESP, Research Centre on Public Health, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano – Bicocca, Monza, Italy

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• Virginio Chiodini,

  Affiliation CESP, Research Centre on Public Health, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano – Bicocca, Monza, Italy

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• Stefano Aliberti,

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano – Bicocca, Respiratory Unit, AO San Gerardo, Monza, Italy

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• Carla Fornari ,

  * E-mail: carla.fornari@unimib.it

  Affiliation CESP, Research Centre on Public Health, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano – Bicocca, Monza, Italy

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• Lorenzo Giovanni Mantovani

  Affiliations CESP, Research Centre on Public Health, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano – Bicocca, Monza, Italy, University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

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