Latin America validation of FACED score in patients with bronchiectasis: an analysis of six cohorts.

Rodrigo Abensur AthanazioMônica Corso PereiraGeorgina GramblickaFernando Cavalcanti-LundgrenMara Fernandes de FigueiredoFrancisco ArancibiaSamia RachedDavid de la RosaLuis Máiz-CarroRosa GirónCasilda OlveiraConcepción PradosMiguel Angel Martinez-Garcia

Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2017)

The FACED score was confirmed as an excellent predictor of all-cause and respiratory mortality and severe exacerbations, as well as having excellent discriminative capacity for different degrees of severity in various bronchiectasis populations.

Keyphrases

cystic fibrosis
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
cardiovascular events
early onset
type diabetes
drug induced