… methods of validating acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (… in
UK primary care electronic healthcare records. PLoS One 2016;11:e0151357.doi:10.1371…

… severe acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary … diagnoses and hospitalizations
from primary care, and the … either primary care only or linked primary and secondary care…

… evaluate methods of validating acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(AECOPD) definitions in electronic health record (EHR) or administrative claims databases. …

… COPD patients may experience acute exacerbations which … 50–70% of exacerbations are
thought to be caused by … We have validated pneumonia codes in patients in primary care who …

… individuals who did not have a diagnosis of COPD in their electronic health record (EHR). …
There is enough evidence to design a large validation study in primary care of all existing …

… The primary goal of this study is to expand the generalizability and validation of the … Follow-up
is done using a combination of patient-reported and medical record review outcomes. Our …

… the UK primary care setting [16] and have been validated for … acute exacerbation rate is
less than average, while 17% experience at least one exacerbation as recorded in primary care …

… Citation7 Severe exacerbations remain the 2nd commonest … but still consume significant
primary care resources. Citation… is the first validated digital application offering an exacerbation …

… at recording of first asthma diagnosis code in primary care … the validation study [32], we did
not exclude people with COPD to … excluding people with co-existing asthma and COPD [33]. …

… Recent years have seen promising developments around the use of database algorithms
to identify at-risk patients using routinely collected electronic health record (EHR) data. An …