Of note, the pathogen-positive group was less likely to be on home (domiciliary) oxygen therapy (35% in the negative group and 14% in the positive group), but this comparison did not reach statistical significance ( P =0.094).
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Phenotyping and outcomes of hospitalized COPD patients using rapid molecular diagnostics on sputum samples.
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Consistent with this analysis, there was a significant trend in length of hospitalization across the three groups, with the pathogen-negative group having the longest stay and the bacteria group having the shortest ( P trend =0.017, Figure 2 ).