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The diagnostic performance of patient symptoms in screening for COPD

Overview of attention for article published in Respiratory Research, August 2018
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Title
The diagnostic performance of patient symptoms in screening for COPD
Published in
Respiratory Research, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12931-018-0853-5
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Authors

Kate M. Johnson, Wan C. Tan, Jean Bourbeau, Don D. Sin, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, for the Canadian Cohort of Obstructive Lung Disease (CanCOLD) study and the Canadian Respiratory Research Network

Abstract

It is recommended that screening for COPD be restricted to symptomatic individuals, but supporting evidence is lacking. We determined the performance of wheeze, cough, phlegm, and dyspnea in discriminating COPD versus non-COPD in a population-based sample of 1332 adults. Area Under the Receiver Operating Curves (AUC) indicated that symptoms had modest performance whether assessed individually (AUCs 0.55-0.62), or in combination (AUC for number of symptoms as the predictor 0.64). AUC improved with the inclusion of multiple other factors (AUC 0.71). Restricting screening to symptomatic individuals is unlikely to substantially improve the yield of general population screening for undiagnosed COPD.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 14%
Researcher 2 10%
Other 2 10%
Student > Bachelor 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 33%
Social Sciences 2 10%
Computer Science 1 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 8 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 October 2018.
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#2,544,177
of 25,385,509 outputs
Outputs from Respiratory Research
#272
of 3,062 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#50,035
of 341,622 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Respiratory Research
#9
of 58 outputs
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