Prognostic scoring models of mortality in a real-life ICU patient cohort have poor value in guiding decisions concerning treatment restrictions of patients with COPD and acute respiratory failure.
BACKGROUND To improve the assessment of which patients would benefit from intensive care treatment and to facilitate end-of-life discussions, we evaluated the discriminative value of several scoring systems predicting the mortality of patients with an Acute Exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) in our population. MATERIALS A...