Independent factors associate with hospital mortality in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease requiring intensive care unit admission: Focusing on the eosinophil-to-neutrophil ratio

• Pei-Ku Chen,

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

  Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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• Yi-Han Hsiao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Software

  Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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• Sheng-Wei Pan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Institute of Public Health, Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7400-6996

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• Kang-Cheng Su,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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• Diahn-Warng Perng ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kuohsink@ms67.hinet.net (HKK); dwperng@vghtpe.gov.tw (DWP)

  Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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• Hsin-Kuo Ko

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kuohsink@ms67.hinet.net (HKK); dwperng@vghtpe.gov.tw (DWP)

  Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8368-6156

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