Aiyuan Zhou, Lijuan Luo, Nian Liu, Cheng Zhang, Yahong Chen, Yan Yin, Jing Zhang, Zhiyi He, Lihua Xie, Jungang Xie, Jinhua Li, Zijing Zhou, Yan Chen, Ping Chen
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: ACO is a syndrome with high prevalence. However, a pragmatic diagnostic criterion to differentiate ACO is non-existent. We aimed to establish an effective model for screening ACO. METHODS: A multicentre survey was developed to assess the clinical criteria considered important and applicable by pulmonologists for screening ACO. These experts were asked to take the surveys twice. The expert grading method, analytic hierarchy process and ROC curve were used to establish the model, which was then validated by a cross-sectional study of 1066 patients...
July 2020: Respirology: Official Journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology