Association between blood eosinophil count and risk of readmission for patients with asthma: Historical cohort study.

BACKGROUND:Recent studies have demonstrated an association between high blood eosinophil counts and greater risk of asthma exacerbations. We sought to determine whether patients hospitalized for an asthma exacerbation were at greater risk of readmission if they had a high blood eosinophil count docu...

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Main Authors: Marjan Kerkhof, Trung N Tran, Maarten van den Berge, Guy G Brusselle, Gokul Gopalan, Rupert C M Jones, Janwillem W H Kocks, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Javier Nuevo, Ian D Pavord, Sarang Rastogi, David B Price
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6059485?pdf=render