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. 2012 Aug 24;12:45. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-12-45

Table 1.

Characteristics

Hospital at home treatment programme
 Hospital care
On admission
Sex Female Female Female Male Male Male Female Female Male
Age (yrs)
 51
 71
 71
 70
 71
 79
 54
 77
 77
Marital status
 Married
 Widow
 Widow
 Married
 Married
 Married
 Divorced
 Widow
 Married
Comorbidities
 Anxiety Depression
 Heart Disease Hypertension
 Heart Disease Hypertension
 Hypertension
 Diabetes mellitus Hypertension
 Diabetes mellitus Hypertension
 Anxiety
 Diabetes mellitus Inflammatory bowel disease
 Heart disease
GOLD stage
 II
 I
 III
 III
 III
 II
 III
 III
 III
Blood pressure (mmHg)
 150/80
 180/80
 140/75
 155/90
 150/90
 140/70
 140/75
 150/80
 97/53
Pulse rate min-1
 108
 56
 87
 75
 88
 61
 105
 110
 60
PaO2 (kPa)
 8.27
 8.45
 10.9
 7.57
 11.4
 8.93
 9.18
 8.74
 8.13
Respiratory rate min-1
 24
 22
 20
 35
 24
 18
 17
 20
 25
Number of drugs
 5
 8
 8
 5
 8
 10
 5
 8
 8
At 6 weeks control
FEV1 (l/s) (% of predicted)
 1.68 (59%)
 1.89 (97%)
 0.5 (31%)
 1.4 (37%)
 1.3 (40%)
 2.1 (75%)
 0.9 (39%)
 0.8 (41%)
 1.3 (42%)
MRC dyspnoea scale
 5
 3
 3
 2
 2
 2
 3
 4
 2
BMI (kg/m2)
 41
 33
 24
 38
 33
 30
 30
 26
 24
6-minute walk test (m) * 508 272 500 125 510 280 350 500

IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease; GOLD: Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lunge Disease; PaO2: arterial oxygen tension; FEV1: forced expiratory volume in one second; MRC: Medical Research Council dyspnoea scale, range (1–5); BMI: Body mass index; *not carried out due to a knee injury.