The annual prognostic ability of FACED and E-FACED scores to predict mortality in patients with bronchiectasis

ERJ Open Res. 2018 Mar 6;4(1):00139-2017. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00139-2017. eCollection 2018 Jan.

¹ Pneumology Unit, Hospital Plató, Barcelona, Spain.
² Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute (InCor) Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
³ Pneumology Service, Hospital La Princesa, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Pneumology Service, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Pneumology Service, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga/Universidad de Málaga, Malaga, Spain.
⁶ Pneumology Service, Hospital Vall Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Pneumology Service, Hospital Josep Trueta, Idibgi, UdG, Girona, Spain.
⁸ Pneumology Service, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
⁹ Pneumology Service, Hospital del Tórax Cetrángolo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁰ Pneumology Service, Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
¹¹ Pneumology Service, Hospital Octávio de Freitas, Recife, Brazil.
¹² Pneumology Service, Hospital de Messejana, Fortaleza, Brazil.
¹³ Pneumology Service, Instituto Nacional del Tórax, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
¹⁴ Pulmonary Service, Hospital Politécnico y Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain.

Abstract

Both FACED and E-FACED scores have shown good short-term prognostic value for predicting mortality in bronchiectasis http://ow.ly/albl30i11bv.