Characteristics of COPD Patients Enrolled into Rehabilitation Programme in Copenhagen
Table 1
Medical characteristics of COPD patients from different groups.
Outcome
Rehabilitation group ()
Comparison group ()
P value
COPD emergency visits, median (5% percentile; 95% percentile)
0 (0; 3)
0 (0; 2)
0.48
COPD hospitalisations*, median (5% percentile; 95% percentile)
0 (0; 5)
0 (0; 2)
0.14
COPD bed days**, median (5% percentile; 95% percentile)
0 (0; 18)
0 (0; 15)
0.14
COPD outpatient visits, median (5% percentile; 95% percentile)
0 (0; 15)
0 (0; 8)
0.53
GP visits***, (5% percentile; 95% percentile)
21.5 (4; 60)
22 (4; 64)
0.90
COPD medicine summary DDD, (5% percentile; 95% percentile)
743 (0; 3703)
480 (0; 3515)
0.0002
n: sample size; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; GP: general practitioner; DDD: defined daily dose.
*A number of times person was admitted into a hospital with COPD diagnosis; **a number of days person spent in a hospital during one admission; ***not disease specific.