ArticleHealth science reports2025
Time to Death and Its Predictor Among Outpatients With COPD: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Northwestern Ethiopia.
Article in Health science reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background and Aims: Globally, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the main causes of illness and death. Understanding the problem with respect to these factors is essential to finding a solution. Therefore, this study aimed to determine time to death and its predictors among outpatients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease followed up in northwestern Ethiopia. Methods: A retrospective cohort study design was applied to collect relevant information on time to death from the medical patient's charts of 248 outpatients with COPD under follow-up at the UGRH. The information was explored using log-rank tests and Kaplan‒Meier plots. We used the Cox PH model for the time to death of outpatients with COPD. Results: Out of 248 COPD patients treated at UoG from January 1, 2020 to December 30, 2022, 82 (33.1%) patients died. The study population consisted of 248 patients who received COPD drug treatment during follow-up, of whom 148 (59.7%) were male, and 145 (58.5%) resided in urban areas. Conclusion: The Cox proportional hazards (PH) model identified sex, occupation, comorbidities, age, HIV status, weight, marital status, and smoking as risk factors for time to death.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.