The association between previous and future severe exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Updating the literature using robust statistical methodology

• Mohsen Sadatsafavi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: msafavi@mail.ubc.ca

  Affiliations Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Institute for Heart and Lung Health, Faculty of Medicine, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Hui Xie,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biostatistics Division, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

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• Mahyar Etminan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Heart and Lung Health, Faculty of Medicine, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Kate Johnson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7406-2448

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• J. Mark FitzGerald,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Heart and Lung Health, Faculty of Medicine, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• for the Canadian Respiratory Research Network

  ¶Complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

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