| Type: | Package |
| Title: | The CODEX (Comorbidity, Obstruction, Dyspnea, and Previous Severe Exacerbations) Index: Short and Medium-Term Prognosis in Patients Hospitalized for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Exacerbations |
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Maintainer: | Amin Adibi <adibi@alumni.ubc.ca> |
| Description: | Predicts 3 to 12 months prognosis in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients hospitalized for severe exacerbations, as described in Almagro et al. (2014) <doi:10.1378/chest.13-1328>. |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| LazyData: | true |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.1.0 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2020-05-12 21:49:23 UTC; maadibi |
| Author: | Aida Kazemi [aut, cph], Amin Adibi [aut, cre] |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2020-05-18 15:20:10 UTC |
The CODEX Index: Short and Medium-term Prognosis in Patients Hospitalized for COPD Exacerbations
Description
The CODEX Index: Short and Medium-term Prognosis in Patients Hospitalized for COPD Exacerbations
Usage
codex(age, charlson, FEV1, mMRC, exacerbation)
Arguments
age |
a number for age |
charlson |
a number for charlson index |
FEV1 |
a number for forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) expressed as percentage |
mMRC |
a number for the dyspnea scale of modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) |
exacerbation |
a number for severe exacerbations of COPD during the previous year (hospitalization or ED consultations) |
Source
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24077342
Examples
codex (age = 40,charlson = 8 , FEV1 = 40, mMRC = 3, exacerbation = 2)
codex (age = 55,charlson = 4 , FEV1 = 40, mMRC = 3, exacerbation = 2)